Apr 3, 2022
In Vietnam, Gorbachev remains a divisive figure — Radio Free Asia
Though staunch communists in Vietnam reflected on Mikhail Gorbachev’s passing on Tuesday by calling him a traitor for causing the USSR’s 1991 collapse, others in the country credited reforms he implemented as the Soviet Union’s last leader with starting Vietnam on its own path to modernization. Gorbachev, who passed away on Tuesday at age 91,