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."

[Vastator]

Gorbachev has a fascinating and tremendously complicated legacy – he ended the Cold War, but also presided over the collapse of the USSR.

Mr Gorbachev, rest in this peace!

Netflix already has a documentary in the works.

 

[basquebromance]

Gorbachev remained on the sidelines in the early years of Vladimir Putin’s rule. But in 2011, he said Putin had built a sham "imitation" democracy. “We have everything — a parliament, courts, a president, prime minister and so on,” he said. “But it’s more of an imitation.”

 

[basquebromance]

Netflix already has a documentary in the works.
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i know it's a joke, but there are some who would watch, including me! the young, democracy-loving people all over the world love Gorbachev!

 

[MarcATL]

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.

You side with the Russians, got it....

 

[basquebromance]

 

[whitehall]

Gorby was in charge when the Russians constructed the Berlin Wall and shot German civilians in the back for trying to escape. He should have been tried as a war criminal.

 

[tahuyaman]

You side with the Russians, got it....

I agree with the Russian majority that Gorbachev was a failure. What’s the problem with that?

 

[MarcATL]

I agree with the Russian majority that Gorbachev was a failure. What’s the problem with that?

Nothing's wrong w/that....tovarishch.

 

[tahuyaman]

Nothing's wrong w/that....tovarishch.

Ok.

 

[eagle7-31]

Gorbachev has a fascinating and tremendously complicated legacy – he ended the Cold War, but also presided over the collapse of the USSR.

Mr Gorbachev, rest in this peace!

I did enjoy his Pizza Hut commerical.

 

[basquebromance]

 

[TheGreatSatan]

Who?

This so weird shit right here

 

[basquebromance]

Who?

This so weird shit right here

you must be a young dude...but i'm 33 and know who he is...read some history, bro!

 

[TheGreatSatan]

you must be a young dude...but i'm 33 and know who he is...read some history, bro!

Why you care bout some Russian bra? This is an American board yo

 

[basquebromance]

Why you care bout some Russian bra? This is an American board yo

Gorbachev was a friend of Reagan's...Reagan is from where again? Ethiopia?

 

[basquebromance]

 

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[basquebromance]

"Gorbachev didn't play Lenin. he was like him by nature"

 

[basquebromance]

30 years ago, Bush Sr talking to Yakovlev (architect of Gorbachev's Glasnost) about Ukraine, Donbas, Crimea

 

[basquebromance]

Nikolai Ryzhkov was Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers from 1985-1991. He was largely responsible for economic policy during the late Gorbachev Era. Ryzhkov remained in politics following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and is still alive at 92