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The accidental hero of 1989
- Prospect Magazine
- Jul 27, 2009
- 1 min read
Twenty years after the wall fell, Mikhail Gorbachev is quietly celebrated in the west, but shunned in Moscow. Yet in both places his reputation rests on his failure to reform the dying system in which he truly believed.
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