The New York Times continued to overpraise the Soviet Union’s last ruler, Mikhail Gorbachev, upon his death in Moscow at 91, with an 8,000-word front-page tribute from obituary writer Marilyn Berger. The print edition front-page banner headline read “Visionary Soviet Leader Who Lifted the Iron Curtain” over a photo of Russia’s last dictator.
People reflected on the death of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, who presided over the end of the Cold War but lived long enough to see the East-West divide revived during the war in Ukraine.
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