 Party hardliners thought the speech went too far; liberalisers thought it did not go far enough.In March 1988, the magazine "Sovetskaya Rossiya" published an open letter by the teacher Nina Andreyeva.It criticized elements of Gorbachev's reforms, attacking what she regarded as the denigration of the Stalinist era and arguing that a reformer clique—whom she implied were mostly Jews and ethnic minorities—were to blame.