So Brother Mikhail ‘s supposed conversion turns out to be piffle . Gorbachev remains an atheist.
As it happens, his visit to the Sacro Convento friary was the result of his poor Italian. “I asked the cab driver to take me to a Kentucky Fried Chicken,” Gorbachev told some 11-year-old children who were staring at his head. “I guess I need to brush up on my languages.”
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