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But since both perestroika and glasnost' from our point of view do not mean `restructuring' and `publicity' generally, as the English words do to us, but rather refer to reforms specifically initiated by Gorbachev, the Russian words, particularly glasnost', are usually borrowed into English unaltered (except in pronunciation).
… A 1980s editorial predicts: "Things will come flying through the windows of glasnost that Mikhail Gorbachev and the architects of radical reform in the Soviet Union neither foresee nor completely control."
Glasnost in Iraq?
Stating that ...many words and usages exiled from East Germany now found a place as free citizens in the world of linguistic glasnost..., he cites only one, Republikflucht , which is a true East German neologism, i.e., a new crime--leaving the country-- which didn't exist before and has since been eliminated from the penal code.
The mid-1980s witnessed a gradual program of liberalization in Poland on the heels of Mikhail Gorbachev’s remarkable perestroika and glasnost in the Soviet Union, the promises of greater openness and economic freedoms.