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1 posted on 08/31/2022 7:44:04 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Paal Gulli

He’s seriously NOT some kind of hero. But he did forgo the normal move of a serious crackdown with the Poles, Czechs, and Germans as they started movements.
A few decades before a Soviet leader would have gone Tiennamen Square on them.

Faint praise, but I’ll give him credit for passing on a bloody crack down.


2 posted on 08/31/2022 7:50:36 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Paal Gulli

As Rush observed Gorby tried to give out freedoms in tiny increments but keep control of the people as much as possible. No wonder Biden and the rest of the rats loved him


3 posted on 08/31/2022 7:55:05 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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Just thinking back to how the world held it’s breath when Lech Walensa and his Solidarity movement arose. And Pope John Paul II was the main hero here.
The Soviets knew it and tried to assassinate him with that Bulgarian.

Good that Gorb knew the jig was up.

And the word is that his wife was a truly committed communist, more radical than he.


4 posted on 08/31/2022 7:55:10 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Paal Gulli
It was a scary world back then.


6 posted on 08/31/2022 8:16:43 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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Gorbachev ended the Cold War

Yeah, sure he did. /sarcasm

Are you taking note Ukraine cheerleaders? The press is lionizing a Russian communist leader. Still think the press, along with this administration gives a hoot about Ukraine?

Rhetorical question, because I know you folks haven't the capacity to seek beyond the latest propaganda piece you have found to post.

7 posted on 08/31/2022 8:23:05 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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