A Personal Farewell to Mikhail Gorbachev
By Dennis Santiago | Aug 31, 2022 11:15 AM ET
Former Secretary General of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev passed away on the 30th of August of 2022 at the age of 91. In his lifetime, his bold decision in the 1980s to work with U.S. President Ronald Reagan to put an end to the Cold War altered the course of human history to a degree that had not been seen since the fall of the Roman Empire.
Gorbachev’s actions helped create three decades of peace that changed the face of planet earth for every human who lives on it. The world recognized his willingness to take a chance on a better future and awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize.
I came to admire Mr. Gorbachev on October 10, 1986. I received a telephone call from a friend, USAF Colonel Robert Lindhard. I spent the next two hours on the telephone talking about intermediate range nuclear weapons and ways to maintain global stability with the advancing nuclear and conventional weapons technology challenges that were presenting themselves for military war planners like myself. The phone call was excruciatingly detailed and, to my surprise, at the end of it Linhard said, “Ok, they say your proposal is acceptable.” I said, “What are you talking about?” He said, “I forgot to tell you at the beginning of the telephone call, I’m on Air Force One. The Soviet Foreign Minister has been listening to our conversation the entire time and they believe there is merit to this. Your orders are simple. Keep your mouth shut for 24 hours and then it really won’t matter.” I knew what it meant. This was the break to end the Cold War that we had been working for ever since embarking on the Strategic Defense Initiative. I was stunned. I realized that everything was about to change. The next day, US President Ronald Reagan and Secretary General Mikhail Gorbachev walked out of a house in Reykjavik, Iceland together. The irreversible process that would lead to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War had begun.
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