AP Interview: #Gorbachev says US was short-sighted on Soviets
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Gorbachev, who helped end the Cold War by launching sweeping liberal reforms, cutting nuclear stockpiles and allowing Soviet bloc nations in Central and Eastern Europe to break free from Moscow’s diktat, spoke bitterly about the West’s failure to embrace a new era of friendly cooperation he said his policy of “#perestroika” offered.
“They were rubbing their hands, saying, ’How nice! We had been trying to do something about the Soviet Union for decades, and it ate itself up!’” Gorbachev said.
He blasted what he described as Western “triumphalism,” saying it remains a key factor in tensions between Russia and the West.