No, Gorbachev is no pygmy; he’s no toy in the hands of circumstances, and he’s not a CIA agent…But who is he? “Communism’s undertaker,” “traitor of the Motherland,” “Nobel Laureate,” and “bankrupter of the Soviet Union”; the “sixties dissident-in-chief,” “the perfect German,” “the prophet,” and “little Judas”; “the great reformer,” “the great actor,” “the great Gorby,” and “Gorbach”; “the man of the century,” “Herostratus”*9…All that rolled up into one.
