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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Great beginning for that movie.
He was, at least around '89.
I figure this news event will create a lot of cognitive dissonance with the leftist reporters who once had a great deal of love for the Soviet Union but now loathe and fear that Putin has dreams of restoring the communist state.
LOL!!!!
I wonder if The Bee will follow up with a more detailed story.
Nevertheless, a powerful photo indeed. Thanks.
“Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War”
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It’s theorized to be Putin, but not confirmed.
He was a KGB agent at the time, and KGB agents were often assigned to work as “tour directors”, etc, to monitor Western visitors. So him appearing as a tourist with a camera around his neck to blend in while observing Westerners in Red Square wouldn’t be too strange.
I have always said, “if Yasser Arafat deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, so did his brother “Nossir!”
Al Gore? Barack the Kenyan? No way, no effin way!
Mikhail Gorbachev? Well deserved.
I remember a news headline back in 1978 saying the CIA predicted the Soviet Union would collapse in 12 years. They were just about spot on.
The three of them worked together to end the cold war.
It should be noted that Gorby BEGGED the West not to let Ukraine join NATO.
The West should have listened to him.
Trump drops little slights at Reagan occassionally seemingly to test the reaction, never a plain statement and there is never any more to the little test line.
As communists went, he was a pretty reasonable person. Many of the other leaders would have launched a war rather than allow the Soviet union to fall. It is to his credit that he was a human being before he was a communist.
But he was still a communist, and did what he did to try to save the communist system. For that, he cannot be forgiven.
Largely true.
Gorby wanted to reform the Soviet system. He wanted to do in Russia what Dubcek tried to do in Czechoslovakia before Brezhnev's tanks rolled over him. "Communism with a human face," was his intent.
But what Gorby didn't understand was that the Soviet system was so rotten and brittle that all he had to do was nudge it gently with his elbow, and the whole damn thing would collapse. Gorby's glasnost and perestroika killed the Soviet Union.
Gorbachev wrote Perestroika which was a guide line to restructure the Soviet economy. The left in the United States loved it. It’s problem was that it centralized in Russia, and would move out to other Soviet states. The smaller states were to reap the benefits last. Latvia and Lithuania, two of the smallest states refused to wait. They were the first to leave the Soviet Union. He received the peace prize because he didn’t send the military in to stop these two small states from leaving.
Menahem Begin is a different matter. You see "Begin Freeway" signs all over the country.
Basically what happened to Yugoslavia after Tito died.
The obvious question to ask is—was he vaxxed?
Not true. He did move troops into Lithuania, 13 people were killed.
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