Posted on 08/30/2022 1:41:37 PM PDT by jroehl
Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, has died at the age of 92, Russian news agencies cited hospital officials as saying on Tuesday.
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Yeah and Hitler ended WW2.
Nazis never get the credit they deserved/sarc.
Well there are some that do credit Hirohito for ending WWII in the Pacific.
Yeah, and Reagan had nothing to do with it. What a croc.
Did any of you think yahoo would credit Reagan for anything????
Too bad Gorbachev ended by being a Putin Stooge.
But what choice did he really have?
Being alive is a nice thing.
I’m offended that they think he “ended” the Cold War. He LOST the Cold War. Reagan should get most of the credit for “ending” or “winning” the Cold War.
(I see that several had the same thought)
Holy CRAP!
Regan, Thatcher and Pope John Pau II, now a canonized saint, together ended the Cold War
Well, unless one wants to say Hitler ended WWII
Trump will you please get back in. This is out of control.
Once a dirtbag, always a dirtbag.
Exactly. The lies they push by people who don’t know any better has me throwing things at my TeeVee
The media is having Gorbasms (Rush)
I liked his wife too.
Reagan prepared to end the Cold War for decades and fought for years to get into the presidency to do it, Gorbachev was the 4th leader the Russians put up against Reagan and Reagan rolled him, the second Gorbachev loosened the leash a fraction, the Russian Empire collapsed.
Col Tibbets and Col Sweeney had something to do with that, among others
I respect him. It all could have gone down in a blast of fire, but instead he let it go mostly gently.
Mostly....
https://emerging-europe.com/news/lithuania-remembers-january-13-1991/
He conceded the Cold War is more like it.
Trump doesn’t like Reagan, that is why you hear him drop little test lines in many of his speeches.
I was just going to post that, Boris Yeltsin played a more crucial role in the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union than Gorbachev did.
That’s my take.
He didn’t have any say in the political structure of the U.S.S.R. falling apart. But he was smart, and patriotic, and a good enough human being to not go out in a blaze of glory, something many of us worried about regarding his aged predecessors.
Maybe enlightened self-interest- he was young enough to have something to lose in WW3, as opposed to Andropov and other really old guys. He could have made the eventual dissolution of the USSR much more costly and violent.
I thought Gorbachev lived in America. Why would he go back to the frozen tundra of Russia?
Gorbachev was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990. He should have shared it with Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. He deserves some credit for not using massive force to keep the USSR intact and there have been worse people to be given the prize—Yasser Arafat, Al Gore, Barack Obama, to name a few.
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