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DECEMBER 8 DAY Mikhail Gorbachev’s 1986 cable for communist governments ARBEN RROZHANI In Albania and in the other former communist countries, in the last two decades everything has been done according to the orientations made by the former Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, in Ka
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