David Frum: Gorbachev is an incredibly important character of the second half of the 20th century, undeniable. He ran a very open kind of polyburo where folks could debate and he promoted a lot of young people from within all of these interesting things. The reason that he embarked on prairie striker was because USSR at the time had an incredibly poor work ethic, terrible productivity and horrible quality goods. And I think that there's something to be learned by that.

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