MOSCOW, August 31 The first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev returned Russia to the mainstream of civilizational development, pushed mankind from the brink of nuclear war, thanks to him the world has ceased to be divided into blocks, the former head of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Fedotov, told RIA Novosti. Gorbachev died at the age of 92 on Tuesday evening after a serious and prolonged illness. he (Gorbachev) returned Russia to the general civilizational development — a great thing, then he was replaced by (Boris) Yeltsin and subsequent heads of our state, but it was Gorbachev who made the most important step, and we must understand that this is a historical figure, a man who pushed humanity away from the brink of nuclear war and thanks to which the world ceased to be divided into blocs — into blocs of the Warsaw Pact and the NATO bloc,» Fedotov said. According to him, it was thanks to Gorbachev that Russia joined the «global civilizational process.» «Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev personified conscience and morality in international relations and in domestic politics. They say that politics is a dirty business, but Gorbachev's policy was a clean one, in any case, he tried to make his policy clean, so that it was based on high moral ideals, namely on universal human values. This is the main thing,» Fedotov noted. Fedotov stressed that Gorbachev is a «multifaceted figure,» and there can be a variety of points of view regarding his personality, including the role of a politician in the collapse of the USSR. that it would have been Gorbachev or someone else, but the collapse of the USSR was historically a foregone conclusion,” Fedotov added. to believe that in the last days Gorbachev repented
