Moscow put enormous effort to end the Cold War, but the reward was frustrating – the West declared itself the only victor and neglected the Russians’ perception of it, Mikhail Gorbachev admitted.
“The end of the Cold War was our common victory, but western politicians, and especially the US, declared themselves victors” Gorbachev told in a sit-down with Germany’s Die Welt newspaper as he recalled the 1989 collapse of the Berlin wall – a milestone symbolic event that spelled end of the decades-long East-West divide and set hopes high about the future of their ties.
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