President Cyril Ramaphosa’s tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev omits the most important contribution the Soviet leader made to the liberation of South Africa. By withdrawing his support for the ANC’s armed struggle and by inadvertently dismantling the USSR Gorbachev implicitly gave the ap.
MOSCOW (AP) — Before Mikhail Gorbachev came along, the Soviet Union seemed an immovable superpower in perpetual antagonism to the United States. With a breathtaking series of reforms, Gorbachev changed
MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War, died Tuesday. He was 91.