Balderdash because the alternative to the credit going to Gorbachev was to credit a true man of the proletariat, Lech Walesa, the most hated woman in the leftist Europe, Margaret Thatcher, the American Satan, Ronald Reagan, and (gasp!) The Vicar of Christ himself, the Pope!
Yes, it’s one of those most self-evident of lies and distortions of the truth that the Libs made the communist brute into their hero and ignored the great people who worked to end oppression that was communism. Those types of lies were so shameless, brazen, and stupid that I believe a whole lot of Americans rejected Liberalism in the 1980’s because of those lies.