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EDITORIAL. Miracle for the West, nightmare in Russia, the legacy of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize is controversial. Let’s give Gorbachev what’s his.
By Nicolas Baverez
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HASWith Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on August 30 at the age of 91, the last major player in the Cold War disappeared. The seventh and final secretary general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1917 exercised power for less than seven years, from 1985 to 1991, but he transformed the world, failing to modernize his country.
It was Mikhail Gorbachev, not Ronald Reagan with his Star Wars, who ended the Cold War and the arms race. It was he who allowed the Soviet empire to break down and the enslaved peoples to regain their sovereignty without violence, by refusing any military intervention – with the exception of Lithuania. It was he who agreed to withdraw before Boris Yeltsin and authorized the Union Republics – led by Russia – to gain access to…
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