Mikhail Gorbachev DEAD

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BBC News - Last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev dies at 91

Last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev dies at 91

The former president opened up the USSR and saw it collapse in 1991.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Soldi]

Have Russia blamed Ukraine for this yet?

 

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His most iconic moment

 

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Who knew he did Louis Vuitton as well?

 

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What a capitalist PIG

 

[Sheena]

Who knew he did Louis Vuitton as well?

That’s an advert for OBB, the Austrian train company. Not LV. (Not sure of the connection…)

 

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That’s an advert for OBB, the Austrian train company. Not LV. (Not sure of the connection…)

I bow down to someone with greater knowledge of his finest work.

I just followed the YouTube trail.

 

[Sheena]

Weirdly, I was thinking about him half an hour ago. I also was listening to an audiobook where the protagonist was listening to a record and I knew before it was mentioned it was going to be Blondie.

Might buy a lottery ticket and see what happens.

 

[COB]

Dancing in heaven now, RIP.

 

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Weirdly, I was thinking about him half an hour ago. I also was listening to an audiobook where the protagonist was listening to a record and I knew before it was mentioned it was going to be Blondie.

Might buy a lottery ticket and see what happens.

I have often used Gorbachev as a good luck omen. I would have a wank over him before a job interview.

 

[GNL]

RIP Mikhail Gorbachev, I don't remember anything about you from A Level History, but I do remember the words Glasnost and Perestroika. Not everyone has that.

 

[OutSynk]

Yes, I also think about Gorbachev at least once a day.

 

[Beverley]

I liked him

 

[Dark Carnival]

Genuinely thought has was already dead. Like ‘dead in the 90s’ dead.

rip

 

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Genuinely thought has was already dead. Like ‘dead in the 90s’ dead.

rip

As if you don't have a whole Gorbachev folder on your phone.

 

[GNL]

As if you don't have a whole Gorbachev folder on your phone.

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Mister Gorbachev tear up this HOLE!

 

[Lucille]

Who knew he did Louis Vuitton as well?

 

[Lucille]

Seriously though, assumed he died before I was even born.

 

[GNL]

 

[Marina Salty]

The russian embassies can't even spare a tweet in his memory

 

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Not a lot of people going for your Mr Gorbachev you're tearin up my heart gags. I'm totally into them. More please.

 

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He's currently no.18 on iTunes.

Nothing on streaming YET.

 

[Penelope]

QUEEN!

 

[COB]

 

[octophone]

Gone too soon xx

 

[Loufoque]

He was genuinely quite incredible. He had the vision to try to reform a completely sclerotic system, and the wisdom not to try to use force to stop it all unravelling. I think people unfairly suggest that he failed because he couldn't reform the Soviet Union, but he succeeded in the sense that he allowed a nuclear empire to fall away without descending into horrible conflict.

Obviously, the situation today is a result of what happened before and after him. But there was no reason for Russia and Ukraine to end up the way they have. They parted under Gorbachev on reasonably friendly terms.