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To: jfd1776
Gorbachev needs to be graded on a curve.

He was a communist fool, but he let the country separate peaceably (after some mistakes in the Baltic States). He didn't unleash the horror he could have when it was obvious the USSR was being actively undermined by its eastern satellite states.

2 posted on 09/02/2022 4:47:25 PM PDT by Yossarian
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To: Yossarian
"That’s not the legacy that Mikhail Gorbachev intended to leave… But, more than anything else, it is to Ronald Reagan’s credit that it’s the legacy he left. "

Amen. And amen.

All Hail Ronaldus Magnus.

10 posted on 09/02/2022 5:05:14 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Yossarian

True that


20 posted on 09/02/2022 9:31:36 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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