Editor's Note: Author Michele Willens is pictured above at the grave of Mikhail Gorbachev's wife Raisa on a visit to Russia.
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In April 2018, I traveled to Russia as part of a Nation magazine-sponsored group, and amid the strained dialogue between our nations, and reappraisal of a Soviet leader who once caused Western hearts to flutter, I flash backed to a long-forgotten but inspiring deed. One of many by the man who raised me.
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