Mikhail Gorbachev, Last Soviet Leader and Architect of Perestroika, Dies at 91

By artappraiser on Tue, 08/30/2022 - 5:03pm |

⚡️BREAKING: Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, died after a "serious and long illness" late Tuesday, l state-run media reported, citing the Moscow Central Clinical Hospital. He was 91. https://t.co/IF2v7jnqm5
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) August 30, 2022

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https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/08/30/mikhail-gorbachev-last-soviet-leader-and-architect-of-perestroika-dies-at-91-a78685

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verka - Mikhail Gorbachev Thank You Very Much pic.twitter.com/FoshupMicu
— vanya (@eurovanya) August 30, 2022

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died, per AFP.

He allowed companies like Pizza Hut to enter into Russia, and thus one of the greatest commercials of all time was created.

RIP: pic.twitter.com/Hpqs2sxtWe
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) August 30, 2022

Mikhail Gorbachev was the only true leader of our country and real humanist. I'm proud I worked in the newspaper founded by him. We'll try to continue this work. Here Mikhail Sergeevich read my editorial for Novaya Gazeta three years ago. It is called Never Again – about war. pic.twitter.com/ExDu7LucVR
— Kirill Martynov (@kmartynov) August 30, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/30/2022 - 5:07pm

BBC:

What did the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev think of Vladimir Putin? https://t.co/PbouO1oXnb
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) August 31, 2022

and then

In a mesage to Gorbachev's family, Putin says the late Soviet premier "led our country through a period of difficult, dramatic change and substantial challenges [...] he profoundly understood that reforms were essential and tried to solve the problems that had come to the fore." pic.twitter.com/X9GYddTS6t
— max seddon (@maxseddon) August 31, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/31/2022 - 5:31am

Better BBC clips: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-62732807

1 of Putin's sugar-coated fuck yous to Gorbachev - "he was good, but..."
Soviet Union good, pre-Soviet Russian monarchy better (with Orthodox Church transcendent)
Yeltsin made a better useful idiot - 1 moment of glory on a tank, than life in a vodka bottle - someone Putin could easily use.

Wondering how much attention Raisa will get as a then game-changing charismatic First Lady (replaced by Yeltsin's dowdy backroom wife and then whatever bevy of young boys and mistresses Putin has, plus corrupt spendthrift mysterious European-lodged daughter.)

Gorby to Forbes - all gone to shit now... https://www.newsweek.com/gorbachev-russia-putin-ukraine-war-destroyed-17...

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 08/31/2022 - 6:23am

absolutely brilliant exchange, and an extraordinary instant translation, thanks to the remarkable Pavel Palazhchenko (https://t.co/YrHuP32SMc) https://t.co/XbRxjOlnxX
— James Wagner (@wagnerblog) August 31, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/31/2022 - 9:49pm

Wonking Out: The Nightmare After Gorbachev Why did Russia’s economy do so poorly?

By Paul Krugman @ NYTimes.com, Sept. 2

by artappraiser on Tue, 09/06/2022 - 12:38am

Mikhail Gorbachev, Last Soviet Leader and Architect of Perestroika, Dies at 91

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