(CP) Prominent American Evangelical Christian leader, the Rev Franklin Graham, paid tribute to former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday at 91, recognizing his pivotal role in history.
In a post on his official Facebook account, Graham noted that Gorbachev “played a critical role, along with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, in bringing down the Iron Curtain and ending the Cold War.”
“President Reagan stood in West Berlin and said, ‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall …’ and within a couple of years that happened,” wrote Graham.
Graham also recounted how his father, the late evangelist Rev. Billy Graham, had first met…
