Mikhail Gorbachev

's tombstone

might read: "He tried to save the

Soviet Union

."

You could also put: "He didn't want a

Tiananmen

".

The compatibility of both inscriptions sums up

the mixture of resounding failure and extraordinary merit that defines his work.

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