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Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War, dies aged 92 -agencies
https://finance.yahoo.com/ ^ | 8/30/2022 | David Lljunggren

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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To: major_gaff

Yeah and Hitler ended WW2.

Nazis never get the credit they deserved/sarc.


21 posted on 08/30/2022 1:50:19 PM PDT by RedMonqey
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To: RedMonqey

Well there are some that do credit Hirohito for ending WWII in the Pacific.


22 posted on 08/30/2022 1:50:58 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: jroehl

Yeah, and Reagan had nothing to do with it. What a croc.


23 posted on 08/30/2022 1:51:56 PM PDT by Nicojones
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To: All

Did any of you think yahoo would credit Reagan for anything????


24 posted on 08/30/2022 1:52:06 PM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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To: jroehl

Too bad Gorbachev ended by being a Putin Stooge.
But what choice did he really have?
Being alive is a nice thing.


25 posted on 08/30/2022 1:52:09 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: jroehl

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)


26 posted on 08/30/2022 1:52:15 PM PDT by Tenacious 1
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To: jroehl

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.


27 posted on 08/30/2022 1:53:17 PM PDT by stanne
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To: dfwgator

Once a dirtbag, always a dirtbag.


28 posted on 08/30/2022 1:53:23 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: tet68

Exactly. The lies they push by people who don’t know any better has me throwing things at my TeeVee


29 posted on 08/30/2022 1:53:48 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: jroehl

The media is having Gorbasms (Rush)


30 posted on 08/30/2022 1:53:51 PM PDT by Archie Bunker on steroids (You may not take an interest in politics, but politics takes an interest in you "Pericles" )
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To: jroehl

I liked his wife too.


31 posted on 08/30/2022 1:53:55 PM PDT by ryderann
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To: jroehl

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.


32 posted on 08/30/2022 1:53:59 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: dfwgator
Well there are some that do credit Hirohito for ending WWII in the Pacific.

Col Tibbets and Col Sweeney had something to do with that, among others

33 posted on 08/30/2022 1:54:05 PM PDT by abb
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To: StolarStorm

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/


34 posted on 08/30/2022 1:54:27 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: tet68

He conceded the Cold War is more like it.


35 posted on 08/30/2022 1:54:48 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: stanne

Trump doesn’t like Reagan, that is why you hear him drop little test lines in many of his speeches.


36 posted on 08/30/2022 1:55:16 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: dfwgator

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.


37 posted on 08/30/2022 1:55:43 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (3,948,443 users on Truth Social)
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To: StolarStorm

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.


38 posted on 08/30/2022 1:56:04 PM PDT by Republican in occupied CA (I will not give up on my native State! Here I was born, here I fight and die!!)
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To: jroehl

I thought Gorbachev lived in America. Why would he go back to the frozen tundra of Russia?


39 posted on 08/30/2022 1:56:27 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: StolarStorm

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.


40 posted on 08/30/2022 1:56:38 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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