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Gorbachev hospitalised, 'determined to fight for life'
(No, not Ebola. 83, deteriorating health)
Yahoo! News ^
| 10/9/14
| AFP
Posted on 10/09/2014 8:41:48 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Moscow (AFP) - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, 83, has been hospitalised but is determined to fight for his life, Russian press agencies reported Thursday.
"My state of health has been moderate for a week and today I am in hospital. My health is deteriorating," Gorbachev was cited as saying by Ria Novosti agency.
"I'm hooked up to a monitor," he added, without saying where or why he was hospitalised.
"You know my character. I am determined to fight for my life," he told Interfax news agency.
The last leader of the Soviet Union was hospitalised in June 2013 for a general check-up.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: determined; gorbachev; gorbachevill; gorbywatch; hospitalised; russia
To: NormsRevenge; a fool in paradise
The unrepentant communist has a warm place coming even though the CCCP collapsed under his watch. He didn’t want it to collapse, it just did.
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posted on
10/09/2014 8:46:18 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: NormsRevenge
I had no idea about his age.
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posted on
10/09/2014 8:50:17 PM PDT
by
onyx
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To: NormsRevenge
The NYT staff will be wearing black arm bands soon.
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posted on
10/09/2014 8:54:20 PM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: GeronL
He didn’t want it to collapse, it just did. Then again, he could have used extreme violence in a last-ditch, against-all-odds attempt to save the USSR. Gorbachev chose not to go in that direction. I'll give him credit for that.
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posted on
10/09/2014 9:05:06 PM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
To: NormsRevenge
Burn in hell, commie pig!
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posted on
10/09/2014 9:12:30 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
(Gully Foyle is my name, and Terra is my nation)
To: Leaning Right
Gorbachev wanted to keep the evil empire together but he was their Jimmy Carter, he kept making mistakes.
He is just communist scum.
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posted on
10/09/2014 9:17:10 PM PDT
by
ansel12
To: NormsRevenge
When he passes we are going to be inundated with how he alone freed the world from communism.
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posted on
10/09/2014 9:20:00 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
To: Leaning Right
To: NormsRevenge
With that giant map of Africa on his forehead, it has to be Ebola.
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posted on
10/09/2014 10:22:11 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: GeronL
The unrepentant communist has a warm place coming even though the CCCP collapsed under his watch. He didn’t want it to collapse, it just did. No thanks to Ted Kennedy and the Democrats who did everything in their power to go around President Reagan and keep the Soviet Union afloat.
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posted on
10/09/2014 10:25:52 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
To: Vendome
I would tend to think he learned to fight at a very early age.
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posted on
10/09/2014 10:27:31 PM PDT
by
eyedigress
(e(!zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
To: eyedigress
He sure did.
He had one black mark against him to begin with...
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posted on
10/09/2014 10:31:59 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: Vendome
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posted on
10/09/2014 10:37:18 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
10/10/2014 12:19:54 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
10/10/2014 1:16:21 AM PDT
by
Domangart
(Tho I walk Through the valley of Wall Mart, I fear no man.)
To: Slyfox
Interesting how Gorbachev after losing the Soviet Union chose to go on living in Moscow (where he is blamed for the USSR’s demise), while the descendants of Nikita Khrushchev unassed the Motherland & headed to America & became U.S. citizens.
Wonder how ol’ Gorby feels about Putin trying to reassemble the Workers’ Paradise, or Putin’s Stalinistic cult of personality?
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posted on
10/10/2014 3:33:34 AM PDT
by
elcid1970
("I am now a radicalized infidel.")
To: NormsRevenge
I am determined to fight for my life
I predict that he will die...eventually
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posted on
10/10/2014 6:20:20 AM PDT
by
Robe
(Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
To: elcid1970
Putin made a comment not too long ago that the fall of communism was the worst disaster of the 20th century.
Yeah, like that was worse than the millions upon millions who suffered death by tyrant in the 20th century.
http://necrometrics.com/20c5m.htm
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posted on
10/10/2014 6:44:11 AM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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