Former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died

Former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died
The former head of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, during the Victory Day military parade at Red Square in Moscow on May 9, 2017. (Image: Getty)
The Economist
The two great heroes in Mikhail Gorbachev’s pantheon were 19th-century socialist thinkers, Alexander Herzen and Vissarion Belinsky, whose main concerns were the dignity of the individual, and whose books he knew almost by heart. When they appeared on the Russian stage, in Tom Stoppard’s trilogy “The Coast of Utopia”, he went to see them. At the end of the performance he was called on stage and given a standing ovation by an audience that, for the most part, had scarcely been born when, in 1985, he became the la...

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