Many disparate factors have contributed to this positive development. However, if one individual were to be singled out for having made the greatest contribution to peace in the world, it has to be Mikhail Gorbachev. It was he who brought the Cold War animosity between the US and the Soviet Union, which was the biggest threat to global peace in the post-World War II period, to an end — almost single-handedly. He did so by bringing the communist-ruled Soviet Union and the Moscow-led Soviet bloc to an end.
Rarely does history present leaders who played a constructive role by destroying the very throne on which they were ensconsced, who became victors by losing the power which they wielded. It was Gorbachev’s singular achievement that he brought about this historic transformation peacefully. Few in the pre-Gorbachev era thought it was possible.
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