WND reports on the lack of credit given to Ronald Reagan for bringing Gorbachev back to bargaining table on ending Cold War:
Michael Reagan also notes that the economy of the Soviet Union was crumbling at the time.
“It was so bad in the Soviet Union financially, the women were were angry because they couldn’t find panty hose. And Gorbachev told me, ‘I had to appoint a czar of panty hose to get panty hose into the Soviet Union so that the women would be happy.’ And that’s what really impressed him. Not just the panty hose but the fact that he was being bankrupted. The Soviet Union had no place to go,” Michael Reagan told the magazine.
