Thirty-five years ago this week, on December 2-3, 1989, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev met with US President George H.W. Bush aboard the Maxim Gorky cruise ship off Malta to declare a formal end to the Cold War. Here's why the solemn hopes were neve
Western media gushed over the summits outcome, with The Guardian starting planning for the climb to the sunlit uplands of a new Europe, The New York Times proclaiming a new era for US-Soviet ties, Ti… [+165 chars]