http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,449326-2,00.html Gorbachev's characterizations of the leaders of other nations are also telling. Of then East German leader Erich Honecker, he said: "react calmly, whatever he says about us." Romanian dictator Nicolai Ceausescu he described as "mentally confused, nothing but mush; to hell with him," and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi as an "adventurer who acts as if he were the head of global revolution -- we will certainly not embark on a third world war for his sake." Gorbachev's comments about the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, the Soviet Union's gulags and his military's adventurous efforts to strike out on its own are all telling. Posted by John Byrde
