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Mikhail Gorbachev - President of the Soviet Union 1990-1991

Recorded in Berlin in November 2014, Stephen Sackur talks with Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, on the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

HARDtalk is in Berlin as the city marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall - that extraordinary moment which dramatised the collapse of the communist system and the end of the Cold War. Stephen Sackur speaks to Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, architect of the policy of reform and openness which was supposed to revitalise the Soviet empire, but instead hastened its demise. How does he see east-west relations?

Recorded in Berlin in November 2014

30 minutes

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Thu 1 Sep 2022 03:30GMT

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Presenter Stephen Sackur
Interviewed Guest Mikhail Gorbachev

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