I was always under the impression that Gorbachev was a naïve optimist who tried to reform the USSR too rapidly, but failed. So how exactly did he screw up and how could the USSR have been saved?
I was always under the impression that Gorbachev was a naïve optimist who tried to reform the USSR too rapidly, but failed. So how exactly did he screw up and how could the USSR have been saved?
if gorby and other leaders had had the stomach--even everything else being equal--they could've saved the bloc. if the east had been a fraction as brutal and freedom-hating as the yankees would have us believe they never would've been dismantled.