Description Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynar were friends for half a century, since they first crossed paths as students in 1950.
In 1993 they decided that their Conversations might be of interest to others and so they began.
One took part in laying the groundwork for and carrying out the Prague spring; the other opened a new political era in Soviet world politics.
Although one was a Russian and the other a Czech, they were both ardent supporters of communism and socialism.
Description Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynar were friends for half a century, since they first crossed paths as students in 1950