Gorbachev too romantic about the West: Russia
The former president opened up the Soviet Union but failed to prevent its collapse in 1991. …
The Russian leader’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said Mr Gorbachev had “sincerely wanted to believe that the Cold War would end, and that it would usher in a period of eternal romance between a new Soviet Union and the world, the West. This romanticism turned out to be wrong”.
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