Never trust what your impressions. Why do I say that? Well, let's take my opinion of Mikhail Gorbachev. In my mind, I always saw Gorbachev through the lenses of Perestroika and Glasnost and then through this Pizza Hut's advertisement where he appears eating a pizza with his daughter with everyone praising the new capitalist mentality in Russia after the collapse of the USSR. So I always had this somewhat positive feeling that Gorbachev was a good man with the wrong view about the worthiness of trying to save socialism.
That was until I read this piece in City Journal which conveyed bits and pieces of Gorbachev through translated internal memos from Moscow that were stolen in the early to late nineties. In no way can we end up with a positive view of the man. It seems like one should never trust his first impressions. After all, maybe a glance in someone's eyes, to paraphase a former US president, is probably just not sufficient.
That was until I read this piece in City Journal which conveyed bits and pieces of Gorbachev through translated internal memos from Moscow that were stolen in the early to late nineties. In no way can we end up with a positive view of the man. It seems like one should never trust his first impressions. After all, maybe a glance in someone's eyes, to paraphase a former US president, is probably just not sufficient.
