His legacy will be that of the man who led to the collapse of the Soviet Union (and that is a flawed legacy; his goal was to reform the system and keep the Communist Party atop the political hierarchy).
Nevertheless, in the West, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is seen as a positive figure; at minimum, the man who had the courage to allow his country to be open in ways it had not been for decades.
Today, Mr. Gorbachev believes his country is again at a crossroads, and he fears that the changes he brought about in the early 1990s are being pushed aside with little resistance heard or tolerated. A story in the Moscow Times offers just the latest evidence to support Mr. Gorbachev's contention.
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