Archangel Mikhail Gorbachev

In this interesting interview in The Nation, Gorbachev is not parsimonious in self-praise, though one should give the man credit where it's due. We often forget that the fall of the Soviet Union and the other Eastern European 'Communist' régimes was due to the efforts of people there—both those in power and those who took the streets. Reagan was just one side of a dialogue that would not have been if the other party had turned a deaf ear like they had done for decades.