08Shevardnadze-master675Radio-Canada

Le journaliste n’a pas pensé une seconde (on ne parlera pas de son boss) que ses lecteurs ignoraient peut-être tout de la perestroïka qui a eu lieu dans les années 80. Que nous dit-il sur la perestroïka?  « (l’une des figures marquantes) de la « glasnost », de la « perestroïka » et de la « nouvelle pensée » politique aux côtés de Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, dernier numéro un soviétique de 1985 à 1990.” C’est tout!

 

Comparons avec le New York Times

Together, the two men (Shevardnadze, Gorbachev) revolutionized Soviet foreign policy. They withdrew troops from Afghanistan, where the Soviet Union had waged a fruitless war; negotiated treaties on medium-range and strategic nuclear arms; took military forces out of Europe and away from the China border; allowed the reunification of Germany; and accepted human rights as part of policy discussions.

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Mr. Shevardnadze was actually in the process of renouncing his Communist past. He had come to believe that the ideology was both wrong and doomed. In 1988, he was the first Soviet official to say that the clash with capitalism no longer mattered — an act of “true ‘sedition’ in the eyes of the official ideologues,” Mr. Gorbachev said in his “Memoirs” (1995).