Mikhail Gorbachev died without speaking about the invasion of Ukraine launched six months ago by Vladimir Putin.
His entourage, however, confirmed what everyone could guess: this fratricidal war contained for him all the
"tragic"
of the destiny of his people - and that of his own life.
What greater contrast between his vision of a
"common European home"
and the conflict of civilizations of which Ukraine hosts the first battlefields?
And what more flagrant proof of his own political failure?
In the West, it was long believed that German reunification and the fall of the Iron Curtain were enough to prove him right - at the same time sanctifying the untouchable superiority of our political model.
The last Soviet leader was driven by the conviction, ultimately very Western, that it is futile to row against the grain of history.
He saw the gaping flaws in the communist system and set out to regenerate it, through
glasnost
(transparency) and
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