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JANE L. CURRY (Santa Clara, CA, U.S.A.) "JUST A COMMON MAN" .. "I am Oz, the Great and the Terrible," said the little man, in a trembling voice, "but don't strike me-please don't-and I'll do anything you want me to." Our friends looked at him in surprise and dismay. "Making believe!" - cried Dorothy. "Are you not a great Wizard?" "Hush, my dear," he said; "don't speak so loud, or you will be overheard--and I should be . ruined. I'm supposed to be a Great Wizard." "And aren't you?" she asked. "Not a bit of it, my dear; I'm just a com- mon man." .. The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum The end of the Gorbachev era seems to have been not unlike Dorothy's discovery that the Wizard of Oz was nothing but a tiny timid man behind a curtain of special effects and hype. In the end,the "superpower" that was the Soviet Union simply dis- solved into a rump of something without any real structures, as republic after republic defied all the old rules and declared in- dependence. The weakness of the old shell was all too clear: it took no intrigue, military assault, dramatic
The Soviet and Post Soviet Review – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1992
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