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One and three-quarters cheers for the late Mikhail Gorbachev

By Quin Hillyer
Published August 31, 2022 8:12pm ET
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One and three-quarters cheers for the late Mikhail Gorbachev
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died yesterday at age 91, was neither the great, visionary emancipator the liberal intelligentsia pretends he was nor a hapless dupe of inevitable historical forces. Despite the gushing by much of American media, Gorbachev was not the driver of freedom for Eastern Europe. President Ronald Reagan and Pope John […]


Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died yesterday at age 91, was neither the great, visionary emancipator the liberal intelligentsia pretends he was nor a hapless dupe of inevitable historical forces.

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