“This is silliness.”
This isn’t history?
I take it you haven’t spent much time on recent Russian history.
Andropov didn’t recommend Gorby as his replacement?
Or is this all just history you would choose to rewrite?
Good gosh, Andropov, just get to the point, what did your college instructor tell you?
The silliness is in referring to them as reformers, since the perestroika was planned prior to the both of them, with the full intention of restoring the USSR at a more opportune time.