Russian Intellectual Hero

Much was said when President Reagan passed away about how he singlehandedly ended the cold war. When Alexander Yakovlev died recently, this Russian intellect, the conscience of a nation’s brutal past and political adviser most responsible for inspiring Gorbachev’s reforms, there was no such eulogy, except sparsely in Russia.

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The west celebrates a victory in the cold war. Russia does not. If anything, I suspect many Russians probably equate him to Benedict Arnold.