Gorbachev Was Sad The World Did Not Develop As He Had Hoped – OpEd

By Jonathan Power*

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last head of the Soviet Union, the idealistic leader from within who accepted the end of communism, arrived in Berlin in November 1999 on a private visit to mark the fall and destruction of the Berlin Wall ten years before. The Cold War had ended a year later. In one speech, with a...