I wish he too could give his recollection of those changing times in the 80s!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5185977/
But if he had warm, appreciative words for Reagan, Gorbachev brusquely dismissed the suggestion that Reagan had intimidated either him or the Soviet Union, or forced them to make concessions. Was it accurate to say that Reagan won the Cold War? "That's not serious," Gorbachev said, using the same words several times. "I think we all lost the Cold War, particularly the Soviet Union. We each lost $10 trillion," he said, referring to the money Russians and Americans spent on an arms race that lasted more than four decades. "We only won when the Cold War ended."
Sound pretty realistic to me. But maybe Gorbatchev's got his facts wrong too. What can you do when facts become wrong?! (Ref http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/06/10/powell.terror.report.ap/index.html
Statements by senior administration officials claiming success were based "on the facts as we had them at the time. The facts that we had were wrong," department spokesman Richard Boucher said.)
We migh haveto create weird new crazy theories to base our lives on...