He claims Gorbachev actually believed he was saving socialism. Is this true? Was he actually just an idiot? It feels possible but I have always just considered him to be evil
He claims Gorbachev actually believed he was saving socialism. Is this true? Was he actually just an idiot? It feels possible but I have always just considered him to be evil
If he didn’t believe it, he was at least willing to pretend to his dying days that what Russia needed was social democracy. I think fuck up and idiot is more likely than demon. But at a certain level of power the two become morally equivalent.