LONDON (AP) — Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets ...
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Gorbachev was a hero in Israel, where a potato was named for him and where he said he regretted the antisemitism that led to an exodus of Soviet Jews. (JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet ...
MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War ...
In the 1980s, his intelligence helped avoid a dangerous escalation of nuclear tensions between the USSR and the West.