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MAINTENANCE. He was Mikhail Gorbachev’s spokesman and friend. Andrei Grachev pays homage to the father of perestroika and denounces Putin’s ingratitude.
Interview by Julien Peyron
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MTuesday, August 30, a phone call told him the information. It is around 10:30 p.m., Andrei Gratchev picks up the phone and hears the voice of his grandson: “Russian television announces that Mikhail Gorbachev is dead. Maybe you shouldn’t tell Grandma right away, it might upset her. The 81-year-old man takes the shock. This is sad news on a personal level – “for my wife and me, he was almost a member of the family” – but above all a major event on a global scale: “From Moscow to Washington via Berlin, kyiv and all the capitals of Europe, it’s incredible the influence that this one man could have had. »
Andrei Grachev was one of the closest collaborators of the man who led the USSR between 1985 and 1991. He…
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