Mikhail Gorbachev died yesterday, and it feels like the old Cold War is fading from memory. Gorbachev ushered in a new world- Berlin's wall came down and he said it was a German event. No tanks rolled. He let it happen. The USSR had many of it's republics pull away. And he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
But I also remember 1986. The Chernobyl disaster, a nuclear accident, occurred on 26 April 1986. And he didn't warn the world as soon as he could have.
Things I never thought I would see in my lifetime now seem a world away.
My granny named her pup after Gorbachev- he was well thought of in the West.
Rest in Peace.
