“All free men are in mourning tonight, a champion of democracy is gone. Mikhail Gorbachev is a man who changed the history of the 20th century. Despite having grown up within the communist apparatus and having reached its top, he had the clarity, intellectual honesty and political courage to put an end to the Soviet totalitarian system and to choose the path of democracy and respect for the sovereignty of peoples. “So Silvio Berlusconi on social media remembers Gorbachev.
“He was under the illusion that the communist system could be reformed from within, but he was able to accept the will of the peoples that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Thanks to him and Ronald Reagan, the division of the world into blocks has been completed, and a process of bringing Russia no longer Communist closer to the West has begun. A process in which I too have collaborated as Italian Prime Minister and which has been dramatically interrupted in recent years. Even after leaving power, Gorbachev remained a lucid and authoritative observer of world politics. I remember numerous meetings with him, opportunities for exchanges of views of the highest level and for me of extraordinary interest. His farsightedness and his serenity of judgment will be lacking especially in this difficult moment of international politics “, concludes Berlusconi.
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