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Ed Markey: when the Soviet Union was falling, Gorbachev called it 'perestroika,' we had a restructure.

On the recordMarch 31, 2014
when the Soviet Union was falling, Gorbachev called it 'perestroika,' we had a restructure.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey compares the current changes in the industry to historical restructuring.

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