The Morning Star from 11 Nov, 1989 (all pics from microfilm copies of the paper so text is probably unreadable)
Two days before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, the Morning Star (the paper nominally tied to the newly established Communist Party of Britain) had a two page spread celebrating the 72nd anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917. Interviewing Yuri Kasin of the Soviet Union’s Social Sciences Institute, the article praised the reforms in the USSR under the banner of perestroika and quoted Kasin about the growth of socialism:
What we are seeing now is not the crisis of Socialism, but the crisis of the outdated model of Socialism. Perestroika is outlining the contours of the new model to which the future belongs.
Those who are ready to bury Socialism, because of the difficulties we are going through will be disappointed. The cause of the Great…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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