there is chernyaev’s recollection of a meeting when they met in malta and signed something there with gorbachev. chernyaev , well , gorbachev’s assistant, writes absolutely enthusiastically that over a joint dinner, the americans began to tell us how we need to democratize, and the british, too, who were present, they all began to say how we need to reform economics and so on, these were such wonderful people, they were sincere to us. wanted to help, they sincerely saw us as friends and partners, that is, a person has a consciousness like a guppy fish, this person, and a representative of the elite group that runs the country, this person does not have russia of the 16th, 19th centuries in his consciousness, he has no idea about a big game about the confrontation between the global anglo-saxon world and russian civilization throughout the 19th century. there is nothing at all, but in his mind there is some kind of unfinished soviet rashka, the great beautiful west, where there are supermarkets with carts, big beautiful ones... no one in america was going to help either the soviet un