He had broken the mold. He was the sincerest express of peace the world had ever witnessed from a country primarily hated for aggression.
It could be said he was the impetus of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. His policies turned the corner on oppression.
The first signs of the break down occurred as riots surfaced in Kazakhstan. The demands for dissolution became louder from every nation of the Soviet Union as greater independence allowed open communication and exchange of information. The isolationist policies of the past had worked. The oppression prevented the reality from reaching the people. When the ruling class of Russia began to realize their own deception it was not well received.
It was a time for others to risk their place in the Soviet Union and move up politically. Gorbachev would be replaced by Boris Yeltsin as the first President of Russia.
Gorbachev never put up a fight. It was as though he was finished with the entirety of the Soviet Union and wanted better quality of life for all its people. As a result of his pacifist agenda he is renowned in many global circles as a reformer and the man that would bring democratization to the nation's of the Soviet Union.
Gorbachev would come to criticize the USA for Operation Noble Anvil.
The latest conflict (click here) for which they supplied large quantities of high-priority munitions on short notice—in this case primarily to the Air Force—was Operation Noble Anvil, the United States' support to the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza-tion's (NATO's) Operation Allied Force. In that operation, NATO forces conducted an air campaign against Yugoslav-Serbian military forces from 24 March to 9 June 1999. IOC supported Operation Noble Anvil from early April through the termination of the operation, and it continues to support several peacekeeping missions in the Balkan region....
He would also come to criticize the invasion into Iraq and the back peddling by Putin and Medvedev of democratic principles in Russia.
