Much like the Vichy French, he hated communism so much that even after the liberation from the Nazis, he would resort to stirring up the Cold War and lionize a man responsible for the murder of Poles and Jews in the tens of thousands. I do not believe that rejecting this sort of stanc...
and along the way victims would be poisoned and/or asphyxiated from the carbon monoxide. After persecuting Jews in Vichy France-controlled Tunisia during 1942 and 1943, Rauff oversaw Gestapo operations in northwest Italy. There, as in Tunisia, Rauff gained a “reputation for utter ruthlessness,...
“Our society was stifled in the grip of a bureaucratic command system,” Gorbachev wrote. “Doomed to serve ideology and bear the heavy burden of the arms race, it was strained to the utmost.” Once he began, one move led to another: He freed political prisoners, allowed open debate ...
MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War, died Tuesday. The last Soviet leader was 91. The Central Clinical Hospital said ...
Gorbachev is survived by a daughter, Irina, and two granddaughters. The official news agency Tass reported that he will be buried at Moscow’s Novodevichy cemetery next to his wife. ___ Vladimir Isachenkov and former AP news director Kate de Pury in Moscow contributed.The...