ex-Foreign winner of Time Magazine Man Of The Year Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of Soviet Union, has died at 91 "after a serious and long illness."

[tahuyaman]

A great and far-seeing leader. Too bad we didn't have as good at the time. An enormous historical occasion was missed.

He wasn’t a great leader. We had better at that time.

 

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"they finally got rid of him, that windbag" - Russian-American businessman Cyril Kombarov reacts to Gorbachev being ousted from office in 1991

 

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a lot of Russians adored Gorbachev at first but later switched their allegiance to Boris Yeltsin, who sought a break from the old world order

 

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Mikhail Gorbachev Didn't Mince Words When It Came To His Opinion Of Donald Trump

 

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“The collapse of the Soviet Union was NOT the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. The USSR collapse was a blessing to Georgians, Ukrainians and the whole of Central and Eastern Europe. And also to Russians”. - European Council President Donald Tusk

 

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many disagree with Gorbachev to this day and think Soviet Russia cannot be reformed, and they say that even to write about it's autopsy is a waste of time, since the Soviet empire could not even provide bread and entertainment to it's citizens for plenty of years

 

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brothers and sisters: Gorbachev was a visionary who was too good for his own country...that's why we must honor him well on this thread, my friends!

 

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What George Kennan said about NATO expansion after the demise of the Soviet Union

 

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who would have thought that the Soviet Union, which defeated and survived Hitler, would collapse from within because of internal infighting and military, economic and ideological collapse

 

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even Gorbachev admits that without the coup of August 1991, the Soviet Union would not have collapsed so thoroughly and quickly

 

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"we just can't go on living like this" - Mikhail Gorbachev, March 1985

 

[MarcATL]

Gorbachev is more respected in the west than he is in Russia. The Russian people are not such a big fan

So do you side more w/the Russians, or the rest of the West?

 

[tahuyaman]

So do you side more w/the Russians, or the rest of the West?

I don’t believe Gorbachev was a great leader solely responsible for the end of the Cold War as our media keeps suggesting. I think the Russian people who regard him in low esteem have a good point.