Why Singaporeans and ASEAN should thank Mikhail GorbachevSingaporeans have much to thank the late and last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for setting off a chain of events which ended the instability in South-east Asia following the fall of Saigon in 1975. The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 saw Vietnam coming to terms with the new post-Soviet world order.
Singaporeans have much to thank the late and last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for setting off a chain of events which ended the instability in South-east Asia following the fall of Saigon in 1975. The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 saw Vietnam coming to terms with the new post-Soviet world order.