California Exile Predicted by Poet
Exiled Russian poet Irina Ratushinskaya on Monday predicted the downfall of Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and accused the West of artificially propping him up.
“Gorbachev will end his days as a political refugee in California. . . ,” she said.
“The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Gorbachev is a standard Western gesture designed to shore up the authority of the leader of a crumbling empire,” the PAP news agency quoted her as saying at Warsaw University.
The poet, who spent four years in a Soviet prison camp for dissident activities, lives in London.
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