SANTA FE – Mikhail Gorbachev gave a lecture and held a press conference here Monday about saving the world – “one step at a time.”Winston Churchill memorably called the Russia of the “iron curtain” and the gulag archipelagos “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” But there was very little of the mysterious about the former President of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Apart from the signature red birthmark above his forehead and a flicker of a Mona Lisa smile, he seemed as real and planted as a boxer ready to go another round.As it happened, there was a humanist wrapped inside the riddle, living proof that an individual could make a difference in the world.“I don’t believe history is preordained,” he said.
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