Mikhail Gorbachev died yesterday at the age of 91.
I'm surprised that a thread has not been started already but here goes.
Mikhail Gorbachev was a reformer, an advocate for peace, however, that meant that he was not as popular in his home country as he was in much of the rest of the world.
He brought the Cold War to a peaceful end, removing the threat that many of us lived under in our youth.
His intention was not to bring about the end of the Soviet Union but his reforms did bring about freedom for so many countries who had lived under Soviet rule. That has been called a great catastrophe by the present President.
I remember the feelings of optimism for a better future during the years he was in power.
Those days are a distant memory and the future seems more uncertain now.
RIP Mikhail Gorbachev
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