Arkady Dubnov for Mikhail Gorbachev's birthday
No matter how many people there are who are ready to assure me that he made them unhappy, it happened under Gorbachev that they were no longer afraid to say out loud that they hated him. This is what should be said: Today, March 2, marks the 88th anniversary of the man, thanks to whom life for a significant number of people of my generation, who were born in the USSR and lived in it, let's say, 40+ by the end of the 1980s, again found meaning. Of course, this is Mikhail Gorbachev.