326 | Ian Kershaw: The Personalities Who Built and Destroyed Modern Europe
The Realignment
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Adolf Hitler - Who Was Your Favorite Person?
Gorbachev a highly ambivalent figure of course he destroyed his own country and we're seeing some of the legacy of that even today with Putin who was an indirect part of Gorbachev's legacy. He brought freedom to millions of europeans in central and eastern europe but on the other hand he attempted along with president reagan to curtail the arms rate the nuclear arms race at the time. I singled him out as the outstanding figure in Europe in the second half of the 20th century. If all the figures in the book I found most sympathy with props apart from church was the same.
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