Gorbachev let the Soviet Union dissolve. Putin wants it back
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Mikhail Gorbachev didn’t make any pronouncements on the war in Ukraine, which, it turned out, overlapped with the last six months of his life: He died this week at the age of 91. But the goal of violent expansionism that Russia’s current leader, Vladimir Putin, seems to be pursuing is a particularly stark example of the difference between the two leaders.