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These developments -- and the gleeful speed with which Poland, Hungary, East Germany and Czechoslovakia have guillotined the Communist monopoly -- must make Mikhail Gorbachev feel like the sorcerer's apprentice.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Northern beneficiaries of his Reconstruction ruthlessness have guillotined him with forgetfulness.

From Time Magazine Archive