Gorbachev had a thin resume as an apparatchik who had risen in the party by doing nothing, in fact, by being nobody.
When he came to London to be promoted by Margaret Thatcher, his 10-line resume introduced him as the Central Committee’s agricultural tsar who had risen to be party boss and later president of the USSR.
He was a blank face on which one could draw one’s ideal face for a Soviet leader.
Iran’s President Pezeshkian offers that kind of blank face. His thin resume inspires a variety of fanciful images. […]
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