Mikhail Gorbachev

In the modern Soviet/Russian pantheon, while Vladimir Lenin will be remembered for laying the foundations of the USSR, Joseph Stalin for defending the country from the Nazi onslaught of World War, Mikhail Gorbachev will forever be associated with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

History will remember Gorbachev for ending the Cold War and thereafter sealing the fate of the USSR.

In our part of the world, Gorbachev will also be remembered for pulling the Red Army out of Afghanistan, and ending the USSR’s decade-long imperial folly.

However, this epochal moment ushered in the beginning of American unipolarity, which is now being challenged by a resurgent Russia, and a proactive China.

As Vladimir Putin views it, the end of the USSR was the “biggest geopolitical tragedy” of the 20th century. Certainly, while the USSR was imperfect in many ways, it did bring health and education to millions of its citizens.

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