A&E did a documentary on the fall of the Ruskies entitled, "The Second Russian Revolution". One thing that caught my attention was that they mentioned before Gorbachav, the Soviet Premier only had to raise an eyebrow to get everybody to fall in line. During the last years an small band of renegades in the assembly gave Gorbachev a run for his money. The Politburo descibed running the state with the renegades in power as ,"like driving an truck on ice, Barely in control".

-Shoot Straight, IM