World leaders react to death of last head of the Soviet Union who had called for Kremlin and White House to mend ties
He [Gorbachev] didn’t believe that the Soviet Union was actually an empire in itself of nations that did not want to be shackled.
Like all Soviet leaders, and dare I say like Russian leaders today, he saw the Soviet Union as synonymous with Russia and he simply could not understand why nations wanted to be independent.'He started historic transformations to benefit mankind' - Henry Kissinger Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger said Gorbachev “performed great services” but was “not able to implement all of his visions”.The people of eastern Europe and the German people, and in the end the Russian people, owe him a great debt of gratitude for the inspiration, for the courage in coming forward with these ideas of freedom.He will still be remembered in history as a man who started historic transformations that were to the benefit of mankind and to the Russian people.
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