The whole (liberal) (Western) world worships him as the father of Perestroika, a person who hugely contributed for the fall of the Iron Curtain (Tear down that wall, Mr Gorbachev!)... But in Russia itself, Gorbachev is probably the most hated man. And is regularly a recipient of tons of verbal abuse. And no surprise, he's often erroneously declared
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Next, the fact that it was HIM whom the collapse of USSR has to be attributed to, ruins the logic of your statement.
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I don't know if I'd attribute the collapse to him. It happened under his watch, but the seeds of it were planted long before he took the reins.
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Such as?
Trotsky?
Can't imagine myself such an animal.
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Hell, it doesn't take too much digging even through the more recent history.
What's the real problem here? Is it the word 'another' or the word 'hard-liner', or is it just that you don't have any valid criticism to what's being said?
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They're hardly hardliners.
A link to another (master)piece of bullshit from BBC doesn't help.
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Sure, anything you disagree with is bullshit. Especially when you haven't even bothered to read the article that you're criticising.
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PS. It's not my agreement or disagreement that makes BBC's output a bullshit.
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'Noblesse oblige' and so on.
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Which issue of 'Reader's Digest' was on it?
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You didn't mean Peter the Great or Ivan the terrible, did you?
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