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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PS. Gorbachev IS disliked, damned and hated but NOT that much to become No.1, imho.
PPS. 'Being true to the endemic Russian proneness'
Errrr... WHAT??
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BTW, when Reagan died I told my students to have people pray for all those poor souls in Hell. Now that Reagan has arrived, the temperature has gone up a few degrees.
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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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You hit 'em with your foot or bang on them with your fist. And they start working again. For a while.
Ps. How do I know? We used to have a Lada.
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Yeah, that's definitely true. I remember when there were votes to break up the Soviet Union ( I think Yeltsin was really pushing hard for the CIS at that time?) and Gorbachev was forced to watch it happen in his official capacity, but he tried everything in his powers (Democratic powers I hasten to add) to stop it. He was pretty emotional about the entire thing naturally.
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That is exactly when a people is most dangerous. When they've lost all hope.
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