Gorbachev was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990. He should have shared it with Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. He deserves some credit for not using massive force to keep the USSR intact and there have been worse people to be given the prize—Yasser Arafat, Al Gore, Barack Obama, to name a few.
I have always said, “if Yasser Arafat deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, so did his brother “Nossir!”
Al Gore? Barack the Kenyan? No way, no effin way!
Mikhail Gorbachev? Well deserved.