In this Miami Herald article on Alexander Yakovlev there's a gem of a quote at the end:
My conversation with Yakovlev ended with a question from me and a succinct reply from him. 'Why doesn't Marxism work?' I asked. He fixed his eyes on me, tapped his wooden leg with his pipe and said, with a certain melancholy, 'It does not adapt to human nature.'
Yakovlev was the engineer of Glasnost. Worth the short read. Hat tip to Andrew Roth at Club For Growth for pointing to the article.
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