President of the USSR, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev. File photoWASHINGTON, Aug 31 US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that the first Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev never lost faith in dialogue between Washington and Moscow and called his life «a reminder of all that can be achieved putting his ideals into practice.» Gorbachev died on August 30 after a serious and prolonged illness, he was 91 years old. Gorbachev» He never lost faith in the transformative power of such interaction, even as the power of some of his greatest achievements waned. In 2018, he wrote: «Is it too late to return to dialogue and negotiations? I don't want to lose hope… We mustn't give up, we mustn't give up.» He was right and his life is a powerful reminder of all that can be achieved when we put our ideals into action,» Blinken said in a statement. , which was published by the State Department. According to him, many of the results of joint work between Russia and the United States, such as the end of the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the conclusion of the first ever agreement on the reduction of nuclear arsenals of the United States and the USSR, would have been unattainable «without courage and determination» that Gorbachev brought. «We join people from all over the world in mourning the death of Mikhail Gorbachev. Perhaps no word is more closely associated with Mr. Gorbachev than glasnost or openness. It is suitable for a man whose openness changed the course of human history», — Blinken added.
