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here's your Shmoop du jour brought to you by criticism a part

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of everyday life after you get married you know you know we never pick up after [Couple arguing]

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ourselves all right while we clean up why don't you take a look at this image

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right there that guy perestroika dude all right now that our

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place is sparkling let's hear today's question what would the initial purpose [Question being written out]

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of Gorbachev policy of glass most a reform movement closely associated with

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the movement depicted in the previous image and here residential answers

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increasing success for you stress on your computers all right well here's fun

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fact Glasnost is actually an anagram for last song yes the last song is a [Glasnost transforms into last song]

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2010 coming-of-age teen romantic drama film starring Liam Hemsworth his brother [The Last Song poster appears]

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Chris Hemsworth sardis Thor in the Avengers Avengers was directed by Joss [Pictures of the celebrities]

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Whedon who created Buffy the Vampire Slayer you know who wrote and produced

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Buffy for five years a woman named Jane Espenson why is that important because

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it's Benson is an anagram for openness which is the rough translation of glass [Espenson transforms into openness]

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notes that's crazy well if we have a lot of time on our

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hands that it comes from that whole not picking up after ourselves thing so now [Guy stood in a messy room]

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that you know what glass milk is what was its purpose was it aid to increase

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government censorship of publication well that would probably go against the

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whole openness thing they were going for a witness and glass most of actually a [Answer A is crossed out]

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well-meaning attempt to return democracy and liberty to the Soviet Union so an [Children being handed over the their mother]

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increase of cold war propaganda was not on the agenda

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unfortunately the hole being open about how things worked in their government [Answer B is crossed out]

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thing ended up just inviting more criticisms of the Union not a suspension

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of them Saudi won't work either but I'll eliminate a C and D triple whammy or [D is crossed out]

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good as you can imagine bringing transparency to the government we've

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done in an effort to reduce corruption in the Communist Party that makes be the [A burglar appears holding a bag of money]

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correct answer and admirable as it was the whole hey everyone look at how we

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work things doesn't tend to be too successful when how you work involves [Police taking away the robber]

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corruption and abuse of power hence the whole

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downfall of the entire Soviet Union thing that followed what's the worst [The Soviet Union falling from a tall rock]

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thing we do is that whole white towel thing and we've never been the downfall

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of the Soviet Union [Girl chucks towel at a man]

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