Tiger, with all due respect that is a quote from 21 years ago when the Soviet Union was still alive. I am sure that there were also some pretty nasty and inflammatory quotes we could dig up from our side, too.
The great irony was that back then, the US was sure that "Gorby was our guy"! And I was saying that "Gorby is still a communist".
Fair enough. But it does sound like a plan to fool the west into thinking they were going to reform. Wouldn't the plan come before the implementation?