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Former USSR President, Mikhail Gorbachev Dies At 91 by HonNL(op): 9:32pm On Aug 30, 2022
Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev died this evening after a severe and prolonged illness,” the Central Clinical Hospital reported.

Gorbachev facilitated the reunification of Eastern and Western Germany.
The last president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, died at the age of 92 after a long illness, the Central Clinical Hospital reported.

The ex-president of the USSR turned 91 this year.
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Re: Former USSR President, Mikhail Gorbachev Dies At 91 by Laggafin: 9:45pm On Aug 30, 2022
Chai the glasnot propounder that introduced capitalism into the soviet union that led to its colapse is gone.. Rest on GORBECHEV
Re: Former USSR President, Mikhail Gorbachev Dies At 91 by budaatum: 9:46pm On Aug 30, 2022
He was a great man. His peaceful dissolution of USSR should be a beacon of learning for those wishing to dissolve the United Nigeria Federation.
Re: Former USSR President, Mikhail Gorbachev Dies At 91 by GOFRONT(m): 9:53pm On Aug 30, 2022
cheesy
Re: Former USSR President, Mikhail Gorbachev Dies At 91 by Omooba77: 9:58pm On Aug 30, 2022
HonNL:
Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev died this evening after a severe and prolonged illness,” the Central Clinical Hospital reported.

Gorbachev facilitated the reunification of Eastern and Western Germany.


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Last of the last men......
Re: Former USSR President, Mikhail Gorbachev Dies At 91 by fergie001: 9:58pm On Aug 30, 2022
....will always be remembered as the "father of German reunification."

I believe he will be celebrated in Germany than in his native Russia.

Fare thee well, Mikhail!
Re: Former USSR President, Mikhail Gorbachev Dies At 91 by VeeVeeMyLuv(m): 10:01pm On Aug 30, 2022
Elder Godfather
Re: Former USSR President, Mikhail Gorbachev Dies At 91 by Faithful007: 10:04pm On Aug 30, 2022
fergie001:
....will always be remembered as the "father of German reunification."

I believe he will be celebrated in Germany than in his native Russia.

Fare thee well, Mikhail!
Putin never liked him. However Putin should have learned from him on the futility of authoritarianism. Those who don't learn from history will repeat it. History has always shown us that all forms of authoritarianism will eventually fail in the future.
Re: Former USSR President, Mikhail Gorbachev Dies At 91 by fergie001: 10:06pm On Aug 30, 2022
Faithful007:
Putin never liked him. However Putin should have learned from him on the futility of authoritarianism. Those who don't learn from history will repeat it. History has always shown us that all forms of authoritarianism will eventually fail in the future.
Putin doesn't seem to me as someone who wants to learn. If it were possible for him to reclaim all those nations that left the USSR, including Eastern Germany.... I am sure he will be very glad.
Re: Former USSR President, Mikhail Gorbachev Dies At 91 by mysticwarrior(m): 10:10pm On Aug 30, 2022
The youngest and last of Soviet leaders. He tried to reform the USSR through perestroika and glasnost just to prevent the union from collapsing, but the growing protest and tension at home following the the invasion of Afghanistan was too much for the young and inexperienced Gorbachev.

Boris Yeltsin quest for power also lead to the fall of the soviet Union. Some see him as a weak leader while others see him as a hero because the union collapsed without the firing of a single rifle.
Re: Former USSR President, Mikhail Gorbachev Dies At 91 by Faithful007: 10:15pm On Aug 30, 2022
fergie001:
Putin doesn't seem to me as someone who wants to learn. If it were possible for him to reclaim all those nations that left the USSR, including Eastern Germany.... I am sure he will be very glad.
In a bid to fight the west. They fight democracy and human rights and think they won't fail.
Since the ancient world, dictatorial empires have all been breaking down never to rise again.
Re: Former USSR President, Mikhail Gorbachev Dies At 91 by mysticwarrior(m): 10:34pm On Aug 30, 2022
Faithful007:
In a bid to fight the west. They fight democracy and human rights and think they won't fail.
Since the ancient world, dictatorial empires have all been breaking down never to rise again.
but the North Korean dynasty of dictatorship is getting stronger everyday. Three generations of dynastic succession with communist ideology and it's still very firm.
Re: Former USSR President, Mikhail Gorbachev Dies At 91 by Day169: 10:51pm On Aug 30, 2022
Russia's last (and perhaps only) great leader since the Bolshevik revolution!
Re: Former USSR President, Mikhail Gorbachev Dies At 91 by BentizilL: 7:19am On Aug 31, 2022
Day169:
Russia's last (and perhaps only) great leader since the Bolshevik revolution!
Soviet last... wink
Putin is greater.. kiss
Re: Former USSR President, Mikhail Gorbachev Dies At 91 by Dvdpity: 8:21am On Aug 31, 2022
All of una that ain't Russian is celebrating someone who is a russian. You all are stupid. Very stupid. No one will ever know or say more about Mikhail than russians. Whatever russians says about him stands. Irrespective of whatever western media paints him.
Just like how Buhari is destroying Nigerians and people from Niger is praising him.

Let us leave russians for russians. He was hated in Russia. Charity beings at home.

As far as Russia is concerned, russians has the best history of their former presidents. And their stories is the truth of events concerning Mikhail Gorbachev.
Re: Former USSR President, Mikhail Gorbachev Dies At 91 by leobergy(m): 8:28am On Aug 31, 2022
Faithful007:
In a bid to fight the west. They fight democracy and human rights and think they won't fail.
Since the ancient world, dictatorial empires have all been breaking down never to rise again.
and so also democratic empires
Re: Former USSR President, Mikhail Gorbachev Dies At 91 by Dailymice: 8:43am On Aug 31, 2022
sad
Re: Former USSR President, Mikhail Gorbachev Dies At 91 by nairalee(m): 8:43am On Aug 31, 2022
I never knew he was still alive o
Re: Former USSR President, Mikhail Gorbachev Dies At 91 by Ccaxxay7: 8:44am On Aug 31, 2022
Rip
Re: Former USSR President, Mikhail Gorbachev Dies At 91 by meobizy(m): 8:44am On Aug 31, 2022
An old person died. Okay.
Re: Former USSR President, Mikhail Gorbachev Dies At 91 by Passionate888: 8:44am On Aug 31, 2022
Heard it on radiothis morning
Re: Former USSR President, Mikhail Gorbachev Dies At 91 by StagethemTVee: 8:44am On Aug 31, 2022
Did you say peaceful?
budaatum:
He was a great man. His peaceful dissolution of USSR should be a beacon of learning for those wishing to dissolve the United Nigeria Federation.
Re: Former USSR President, Mikhail Gorbachev Dies At 91 by Articul8(m): 8:45am On Aug 31, 2022
The man from my textbook. Instrumental to the unipolar international system. glasnost and perestroika
Re: Former USSR President, Mikhail Gorbachev Dies At 91 by Gangingshit(m): 8:45am On Aug 31, 2022
Ok
Re: Former USSR President, Mikhail Gorbachev Dies At 91 by stevebond007(m):
May he Rest in Power.
At least he and JFK de-escalated the Bay of Pigs crisis... It could have been a nuclear disaster.



Modified: it was Khrushchev and JFK that de-escalated it
Re: Former USSR President, Mikhail Gorbachev Dies At 91 by othermen: 8:46am On Aug 31, 2022
Mikhail Gorbachev took away from the US what the UK is
and took away from Russia what the US and China is.
Re: Former USSR President, Mikhail Gorbachev Dies At 91 by VeryWickedMan: 8:46am On Aug 31, 2022
He destroyed the Great Motherland. A coward.
And he chose peace over violence so I hate him.

Re: Former USSR President, Mikhail Gorbachev Dies At 91 by Passionate888: 8:46am On Aug 31, 2022
91 or 92? angry

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
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