Totally undeserved. Gorbachev was, first and foremost, a communist who was trying to preserve the Soviet Union. The true hero was the despised (by liberals and leftists) Yeltsin.
if, in the’92 campaign, GHW Bush had made a point of thanking the portion of the electorate that had stood by Reagan’s and to some extent his own efforts , instead of running off after Gorbachev and nuclear freeze as the Dems had, he would have come a lot closer to keeping Toon out of the White House.