Posted on Sep 1, 2022
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, remembered
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Mikhail Gorbachev — the last leader of the Soviet Union and Nobel Peace Prize winner who helped bring an end to the Cold War — has died at age 91. The Russia where he died is a very different place from the Soviet Union where Gorbachev grew up and became president.
William Taubman is a biographer, professor emeritus at Amherst College and author of "Gorbachev: His Life and Times." He talks with Here & Now's Lisa Mullins.
William Taubman is a biographer, professor emeritus at Amherst College and author of "Gorbachev: His Life and Times." He talks with Here & Now's Lisa Mullins.
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, remembered
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel why do my replies keep disappearing?
..."With Gorbachev’s passing, President Joe Biden called him “a man of remarkable vision,” and his attempts at reform the “acts of a rare leader.”
Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, on the other hand, offered a rather lukewarm acknowledgement of the last Soviet leader’s role in history as a principled but naive statesman.
“Gorbachev gave impetus to the end of the Cold War, and he sincerely wanted to believe that would end and that an eternal romantic period would begin between the new Soviet Union and the West,” Peskov told the Russia news agency, Interfax. “This romanticism did not come true.”
..."With Gorbachev’s passing, President Joe Biden called him “a man of remarkable vision,” and his attempts at reform the “acts of a rare leader.”
Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, on the other hand, offered a rather lukewarm acknowledgement of the last Soviet leader’s role in history as a principled but naive statesman.
“Gorbachev gave impetus to the end of the Cold War, and he sincerely wanted to believe that would end and that an eternal romantic period would begin between the new Soviet Union and the West,” Peskov told the Russia news agency, Interfax. “This romanticism did not come true.”
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