Gorbachev was 'shocked and bewildered' by Russia's war in Ukraine, according to his interpreter of 37 years. 'It really crushed him emotionally and psychologically.”
Gorbachev has been lionized in the West for his role in presiding over liberalizing reforms in the Soviet Union and bolstering ties with the West, but his legacy, as the leader that oversaw the collapse of the Soviet Union, is more complicated in Russia.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov on Wednesday referred to Gorbachev's view that the end of the Cold War would lead to warmer relations between the Soviet Union and the West as a "failed romanticism," perThe Soviet leader was not only shocked at the war "that started on Feb. 24, but the entire evolution of relations between Russia and Ukraine over the past years that was really, really a big blow to him," Palazhchenko told Reuters in an interview.
"He believed not just in the closeness of the Russian and Ukrainian people, he believed that those two nations were intermingled."Axios on facebook
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