Vladimir Kontorovich and Eugene Kontorovich recently argue in the Wall Street Journal that America is going through a period of political “openness” regarding various deceptions that government, media, corporate, and education leaders have perpetrated for many years. America is entering its own period of glasnost. The authors remind us about the Russian glasnost that began in 1988 when Mikhail Gorbachev thought loosening control of information would satisfy peoples’ reform appetites while giving the regime more legitimacy. He bet wrong. The exposure of the Soviet regime’s official lies to a long-suffering Russian people was rapidly consumed by the public, with every new story detailing how they had been deceived for decades.
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