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...prosecutors long held that the Bulgarian secret service was working for Soviet military intelligence, but an Italian court held that the evidence was insufficient to convict the Bulgarians in the plot. The latest findings will add to John Paul's legacy as being right up there with Reagan and Gorbachev as the decisive players in the end of the Cold...
...status quo might have stood even longer than it did, Gaddis argues, but along came Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II and Mikhail Gorbachev, all prepared to think anew. By that time, thanks to the manifest failures of the Marxist system, so were a lot of other people. More than the disposition of forces, victory in the war of ideas was crucial to ending the cold war. When the Berlin Wall finally fell, communism was so discredited that not even communists believed in it anymore...
...sovereign must be autocratic,” crystallizing the perennial Russian dilemma between authoritarian regimes and revolutions. Putin once deemed the fall of the Soviet Union the greatest political catastrophe of the century; the world hopes he won’t try to emulate what was lost under Mikhail Gorbachev. Gazprom’s New Year surprise, however, shows a future as dark as oil, and as volatile as natural...
...shut off the water and electricity, and just waited. I told their parents that health conditions were deteriorating, dysentery was going to spread. And they broke it up without any difficulty." I said to Li Peng, you had the world's TV cameras there waiting for the meeting with Gorbachev, and you stage this grand show. His answer was: We are completely inexperienced in these matters...
...MIKHAIL GORBACHEV 1987, '89 Former President of the Soviet Union, 1987 Man of the Year, 1989 Man of the Decade...