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Gorbachev is urgently hospitalized

Andre Singer, one of the directors of Meeting with Gorbachev movie, reported that former Soviet leader, 88-year-old Mikhail Gorbachev, was currently in hospital.
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Andre Singer, one of the directors of Meeting with Gorbachev movie, reported that former Soviet leader, 88-year-old Mikhail Gorbachev, was currently in hospital.

According to him, the politician wanted to attend a movie show at the Moscow International Film Festival, but felt bad. TASS agency reports that doctors forbade the former head of state to attend the event.
 
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Fuck I can't think of anything witty about his hospitalization. But uh... guess the end of an era is at hand? Will he and former President Reagan be sharing a handshake on the other side soon? Are they going to preserve his birthmark in a museum someplace?
 
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I skipped through one of his more recent books a bit ago. It gave the impression that he feels very bad about how modern-day russia turned out and a lot of it really felt like justification. It's kinda sad. I think he was one of the very few russian leaders that actually somewhat gave a shit about his people.
 
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I skipped through one of his more recent books a bit ago. It gave the impression that he feels very bad about how modern-day russia turned out and a lot of it really felt like justification. It's kinda sad. I think he was one of the very few russian leaders that actually somewhat gave a shit about his people.
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Gorbachev has for a long time been one of those people that I'd like to sit down and have lunch with and just listen. Seems like he'd have interesting stories and perspective born of his experiences as a leader.
 
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Gorbachev has for a long time been one of those people that I'd like to sit down and have lunch with and just listen. Seems like he'd have interesting stories and perspective born of his experiences as a leader.
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Many people (even russians) are not aware on what an incredibly tight rope he walked and how much worse everything could've turned out, mostly because he wanted a better future for his people. Seeing Russia fall into the lap of yet another autocratic despot in his lifetime and dying with that knowledge must be incredibly disheartening and it truly is palpable in his more recent works. I can only recommend them, they're not easy reads though and they actually get quite a bit of critique for him trying to justify his course so much.
 
Am presently reading a book about Gorbachev. Agree, not the easiest read but interesting.

Some people are great because of what they have done. Others are great because they did not do what they could have done. Gorbachev is the latter.

The Soviet Union ceased to exist as of 25 December 1991. Gorbachev was first and last President of the Soviet Union. He had control of the Soviet nuclear "football" until turning it over to Boris Yeltsin late on that Christmas Day afternoon. That turnover happened quickly and smoothly.

But things could have turned out much differently. Gorbachev could have said to himself, "Well if the Soviet Union is collapsing, may as well go out in a blaze of glory!", and "pushed the button". To his eternal credit, Mikhail Gorbachev did not press that button. I believe a Lenin or especially a Stalin would have done so in the same situation. Khruschchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko - no, they wouldn't.

I grew up worrying about the prospect of atomic war with the Soviets, read my share of post-apocalyptic literature. Now that worry was gone. Better yet, I was happy to see that sword of Damocles removed from above the heads of my kids, 8 and 4 at the time. Many of you were born after Christmas 1991. You got to be born, live, grow up.

I'll be sad when Gorbachev passes away. Great because he did the right thing at the right time.
 
Gorbachev is still alive? Hang in there, Gorby
 
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