Revisiting Robert Scheer’s 1987 Los Angeles Times review: “From Moscow, First Report of an Unprecedented Call for Change: The Gorbachev Manifesto.”
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Putin s spin doctors claimed that the Russian tyrant expressed sympathies over the death of Gorbachev - even though the USSR s last leader is despised by Kremlin hardliners.
Like the final Roman Emperor Romulus Augustus and Soviet predecessor Tsar Nicholas II before him, Mikhail Gorbachev (left) oversaw the collapse of a once-great power.
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