How Gorbachev S Political Legacy Was Destroyed By Putin Mikhail Gorbachev
The era of détente and arms control between Washington and Moscow has been replaced by a bloody war in Ukraine, in which US and NATO weapons are pitted against Russian forces with the risk of a direct conflict between the nuclear superpowers by accident or miscalculation . When Gorbachev resigned in late 1991, the NATO-Soviet border was no longer a flashpoint. NATO pulled all but a few thousand troops back from the eastern flank, and the horror of the cold war seemed to have been consigned to history books and museums....