On the December 31, 2012 installment of Showtime’s ten-part Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States, Stone ripped Ronald Reagan's conservative policies and touted Mikhail Gorbachev as the true “democrat” who deserves credit for ending the Cold War:
“What is Reagan’s real legacy?...He deregulated industries, eroded environmental standards, defiantly ripping down the solar panels that Jimmy Carter had put on the White House roof, weakened the middle class, busted unions, heightened the racial divides, widened the gap between rich and poor....As far as Reagan’s much-vaunted role in winning the Cold War, the lion’s share of credit goes to Mikhail Gorbachev — a true visionary and, it turns out, the real democrat.”