If you don’t honour Gorbachev, you get more Putins

In this file photo taken on December 21, 2004 Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) talks to former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (L) prior to a joint press conference of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Putin at Gottorf castle in Schleswig. PHOTO/AFP

By  Charles Makakala

What you need to know:

  • The West had the opportunity to welcome Russia into its fold, as Gorbachev and even Putin had hoped, but it did not.

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