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Mikhail Gorbachev

• June 11 -- Gorbachev's "Bold and Brilliant" Perestroika
Thom Shanker interviews Mikhail Gorbachev and gives the Soviet leader the credit for ending the Cold War: "As Mr. Reagan's obituaries uniformly proclaim, the late president won the cold war, but historians agree that the outcome would have been impossible had any man other than Mr. Gorbachev been sitting behind the Kremlin's red-brick walls and across the negotiating table."

• July 28 -- Gorbachev Still A Cold War Hero
The Times again hails former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as the man who ended the Cold War, not mentioning how Gorbachev tried to roll back the revolution in Lithuania and other Soviet satellites.