Mikhail Gorbachev and John Paul II in 1989.Mikhail Gorbachev and John Paul II in 1989. On August 30, 2022, Mikhail Gorbachev passed away at the age of 91. In self-conscious praise, which was consistent with the government’s provision for a burial without state honors, the current president of Russia and his predecessor in the Kremlin, … Read more
Two years before the fall of communism in the only letter addressed to a foreign leader by the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini invited Mikhail Gorbachev to adhere to Islam. The last leader of the Soviet Union, a product of the communist system, died Tuesday at the age of 91 … Read more
Mihail Gorbachev – — from Marco Rosichini — The circle of the short century has closed. The death of Mihail Gorbachev it symbolizes the end of a historical cycle that laid the foundations, for better or for worse, of today’s world. Cold War, mutual annihilation, nuclear deterrence. Many things have changed since in 1985 a … Read more