That political generation that presided over the end of the Cold War also remembered another era: that of World War II. In an age of renewed tension between Russia and the west, today's leaders have no such memories.
"As long as weapons of mass destruction exist, primarily nuclear weapons," Gorbachev told the BBC's Steve Rosenberg,"the danger is colossal."
Many in the Soviet sphere had come to disagree. But, crucially, in 1989, the Soviet Union was not willing to send in troops to save the socialist system."There mustn't be bloodshed," Gorbachev said in the BBC interview."We wouldn't allow that." Returning to his home town of Leningrad –Soviet security officers were less welcome in the new Germany–Putin found that the system was close to collapse even there. His two decades at the top of Russian politics have been about building a strong state; one which, like the Soviet Union was, is respected–some might say feared–abroad.Gorbachev is one of the last surviving political leaders of the world in which the wall came down.
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