“Catastroika” - that’s what #Russian philosopher Alexander Zinoviev called Gorbachev’s perestroika before it had even run its course.Living in Munich since the 1970s, Zinoviev had watched the West up close. He understood why Gorbachev - and later Yeltsin - were greeted there with such enthusiasm.In a 1990 televised debate with Yeltsin in #France, Zinoviev made a striking prediction: if Gorbachev, a Soviet apparatchik, managed to bring down the USSR