“Thanks, LOL” – by Niccolo Soldo – Fisted by Foucault
By 2011, Mikhail Gorbachev was long relegated to the proverbial dustbin of history , powerless, rudderless, without influence and a reason for his own existence. Time had passed him by, rendering him yesterday s man . Russians viewed him as the destroyer of the Soviet Union who opened the door to the disasters of the Yeltsin Era. Eastern and Central European peoples who were finally freed from being stuck behind the Iron Curtain had no love for this communist, the system he represented, and the occupation that he ended.
It s therefore no wonder that he was honoured and applauded in London for his birthday bonanza as Americans and Western European leaders viewed him as something else: a liberal reformer, who, btw, supervised the demolition of the Free World s sole superpower rival. Those who study Political Science and History are well-acquainted with the Great Man Theory