Mikhail Gorbachev has died
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Mikhail Gorbachev has died
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#2Note that in Russian doctrine as tought in universities, the Cold War never ended.
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#3Note that in Russian doctrine as tought in universities, the Cold War never ended.
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#4I was taught that Ronald Reagan ended the cold war and gave us the longest lasting economic boom.
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#5Paraphrasing President Reagan:
The Moscow police are notoriously strict when it comes to speeding. One day, Gorbachev and his driver are going to a meeting, and they are running late. Gorbachev admonishes the driver to go faster, but his driver refuses.
Finally, Gorbachev says, "Fine! Pull over! I will drive."
Gorbachev starts speeding through the streets of Moscow with his driver in the back seat. They are pulled over by the police.
The first officer gets out of the car and walks to Gorbachev's car. They talk for a moment, then the officer returns, as white as a sheet.
"Well? Was it someone important?" says the second officer.
The first officer replies, "Important?! You have no idea! Gorbachev is his driver!"
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#7I was taught that Ronald Reagan ended the cold war and gave us the longest lasting economic boom.
I think the truth lies somewhere in the middle, in the sense that it never ended. It only took a back seat in the media while Russia was disorganized.
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#8RIP. I did my college essay on Gorbachev. Still think the Cold War was the greatest urgent threat to humanity and welcome any moves to end it, failures and all
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#9I was taught that Ronald Reagan ended the cold war and gave us the longest lasting economic boom.
He did. It's just that leftists in the US won't accept that and pretend that the Cold War just "ended" one day, because of the goodwill of the Russians, not because the US policy forced them into bankruptcy.
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#10I was taught that Ronald Reagan ended the cold war and gave us the longest lasting economic boom.
I think the truth lies somewhere in the middle, in the sense that it never ended. It only took a back seat in the media while Russia was disorganized.
it ended for 150 or so million people in Eastern Europe, that were freed from Russia.