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Mikhail Gorbachev

The Washington Post rated the claim ““When the wall came down in the Soviet Union and Europe, [Soviet President Mikhail] Gorbachev destroyed himself politically by doing something that was very, very courageous. He went to [President George H.W.] Bush. He said, ‘I’m going to allow you to reunify Germany under a NATO army. I’m going …” False.

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Captured 2026-08-15 from The Washington Post. The archived copy is preserved so this citation survives link rot.