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Gorbachev and Poland [63]
Gorbachev's actions led to the freedom of Eastern Europe.
Of course, he did - at the expense of his country - just as Biden is destroying his.
You sound like Gorbachev's primary mission was to be a great international humanitarian. It was not. His sole mission was to do the best for the USSR and the doctrine he swore to promote - their style of communism. He has miserably failed to accomplish this objective. Your and my view of communism is completely irrelevant in this respect.
Just imagine a US president with the agenda of breaking the country into smaller pieces, returning all land to the American Indians, succeeding, and being proud of it. This guy should be and would be assassinated just like JFK, not celebrated. The assassin would be a new American hero with his own holiday as the man who saved "America".