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Gorbachev Is Kaput
« on: August 31, 2022, 12:29:39 AM »
He introduced Glasnost - fast fading...actually gone - under Putin.
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Mikhail Gorbachev -- the last leader of the former Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 -- has died at the age of 91.

Gorbachev died after a long illness, Russian state news agencies reported.
"Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev died this evening after a severe and prolonged illness," the Central Clinical Hospital said, according to RIA Novosti Tuesday.
The man credited with introducing key political and economic reforms to the USSR and helping to end the Cold War had been in failing health for some time.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/30/europe/mikhail-gorbachev-dies-intl/index.html
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Re: Gorbachev Is Kaput
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2022, 12:32:51 AM »
The reason for the biggest Geopolitical Catastrophe in the 21st Century.

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Re: Gorbachev Is Kaput
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2022, 11:02:57 AM »
For some and for others it was the emancipation. Just ask the Poles for example. Even the Russians are free to move around the world today.

The reason for the biggest Geopolitical Catastrophe in the 21st Century.