Journalist and essayist,
Thierry Wolton
is the author of “Une histoire mondial du communisme”, in three volumes at Grasset: “Les Bourreaux” (2015), “Les Victimes” (2016), “Les Complices” (2017).
He has also just published "Penser le communisme" (Grasset).
On the evening of December 25, 1991, speaking on Russian television, the President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, noted that the USSR had ceased to exist and announced his resignation.
An event almost forgotten nowadays, at least on this side of Europe, while, in the eastern regions freed from the Soviet yoke, the memory of this liberating date remains very much present.
In these times of commemoration of all kinds, such forgetting or such discretion is significant.
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