The communist in this case being the last leader of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, who died a few days ago at the age of 91.
I actually liked the guy for his basic decency and smarts, although that decency did not stop him sending in KGB agents to Eastern block countries to do their usual job of killing “agitators”, until he realised it would also take tanks and troops, as in East Germany in ’53, Hungary in ’56, and Czechoslovakia in ’68, and decided he couldn’t follow in the footsteps of Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev. So yes, I’ll give him credit for not doing the worst he could have – but that’s pretty weak sauce even if it does testify to some basic human decency.
That decency was also attested to here by John Hinderaker at Powerline, based on dealing with him at a US event in 2000:
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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