" Speaking of the Soviet-era constitution belatedly repudiated by President Yeltsin, Gorbachev lamented that "Such treatment of the constitution, when somebody wipes his feet on it, simply creates Bolshevism.
According to Mr Roy, the Central Asian specialist in Paris, the Soviet regime was anxious to destroy the pan-Islamic and pan-Turkish ideology promoted by Central Asian intellectuals in the early 20th century so it could introduce bolshevism more easily.