You must remember this guy. He served on the Central Committee under Gorbachev but stepped down from his post in 1991 when he realized where things were heading. This is Ryzhkov.

He had a remarkable life story. He rose from being a shop foreman at the Uralmash plant all the way to becoming the plant's Director—it’s like something out of a fairytale... :) He hailed from the Donbas region, from a family of coal miners, and truly worked his way up from the very bottom.

He has since passed away; this is one of his final interviews—you’ll see Spitsyn there as well. Incidentally, Spitsyn was a student of Yuri Nikolayevich Zhukov, whose books I’ve mentioned here before.

If you’re interested in the Soviet economy of the 1980s, you might find this worth watching.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Ryzhkov