How will History remember Mikhail Gorbachev the man who lost Russia her empire?

It is said Russians have rejected him, arguing that he did the job the West had wanted all along.

In the West, it is said that he prevented the Cold War from ending as a hot one.

When this man came to power, Russia was embroiled in a friutless war to pacify Afghanistan, and having listened to what the mothers of the empire were telling him, he pulled his army out.

The evil empire had spent eight years there and left behind Najibullah.

He came from a generation that did not believe the propaganda fed to them by the state that portrayed the West as the enemy that wanted to destroy Russia, so he did not have any difficulty in opening a dialogue with America and encouraging reforms around the idea of glasnost. For that he was…