Ligachev constantly suffers unfair smears and is scapegoated as a hardliner. In reality Ligachev was a moderate who supported much of perestroika until Gorbachev went way too far and even started attacking the Party.
Yeah seriously poor Yegor got portrayed in the west as some sort of arch-stalinist hell bent on the destruction of reforms but in reality he probably had the better reform vision than Gorbachev did.
Ligachev constantly suffers unfair smears and is scapegoated as a hardliner. In reality Ligachev was a moderate who supported much of perestroika until Gorbachev went way too far and even started attacking the Party.
Yeah seriously poor Yegor got portrayed in the west as some sort of arch-stalinist hell bent on the destruction of reforms but in reality he probably had the better reform vision than Gorbachev did.