Conclusion

Rarely in history have we witnessed the policy of a great power continue, throughout so many difficulties and reversals, to be guided by a such an idealistic view of the world, based on universal reconciliation, and in which the image of the enemy was constantly blurring, to the point of making it practically disappear as the enemy. Let us again guard here against thinking that the Soviet leadership did not have other options and that its policy was somehow the inevitable product of the impasses in which the USSR found itself. If Gorbachev’s policy could be considered by some as