USSR journal, Coup in Baku?

We barter Pepsi for vodka, for lack of hard currency, we barter Marlboro cigarettes for taxis, and hotel rooms. The Soviet Union is in crisis. The newspaper is on strike. From crisis comes new solutions. Five years of political reform. Power translates from the state to the populace. When will people take responsibility? Gorbachev introduces a multiparty system. Ideas, not solutions. Political and economic change is in the air. Someone tells me that Gorbachev is another Abraham Lincoln. Another asks if he will be shot for his beliefs? Each day, so much tension, each day, a blessing. Unrest in Azerbaijan and Armenia. So many dead. A coup in Baku?