Tag: Mikhail Gorbachev
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Rise and fall of Gorbachev: My two and a half interviews
For 31 years since his fall Gorbachev must have suffered in silence the rank betrayal by his western interlocutors on what they promised him when he was in power. “I can now…
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Soviet Union thirty years after collapse: Gains and losses
The collapse of the Soviet Union 30 years ago was a tragedy for half the world but frothed with possibilities for the other half which the West spilt, mistaking rampaging markets for…