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Ryszard Kapuscinski, in Imperium

of the Soviet Imperium is terror and its inseparable, gnawing offshoot--fear" (314). The power of the Imperium, then, was in the refusal of the government to express anything but absolute faith in itself and its control over everything under its purview. This absolute power, this utter ruthlessness, was so important to the Soviet hold on its people that the author sees the beginning of the end for the Imperium at the moment it gave up such power and ruthlessness: "Because the Kremlin abandons the politics of mass terror with the deaths of Stalin and Beria, one can say that their departure is the beginning of the end of the Imperium" (314). The end itself, however, was a long time in coming, preceded by glasnost and perestroika, which opened the floodgates of the freedom of speech and press, but did little to correct the problems of communism or its aftermath.

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