On balance, it's useful to allow humans to be remembered for their best days. Compared to other Russian leaders, Gorby deserves to be remembered for his good and wise deeds, which far outweigh his evil deeds. It's healthy to celebrate good things... celebrate any example of every world leader who isn't consumed by sadism and narcissism. imho. It's possible to do so without forgetting nor emphasizing the bad things. Plus... timing man... your timing just sucks.
Question, JVL:
Was the murder of 14 Lithuanians & the maiming of hundreds more in 1991 part of Glasnost or Peristroika?
It’s hard for me to remember the proper terms, with all the Gorby-fluffing.
https://emerging-europe.com/news/lithuania-remembers-january-13-1991/
If you're waiting for someone who is 100% pure good, you've got a long wait in front of you.
On balance, it's useful to allow humans to be remembered for their best days. Compared to other Russian leaders, Gorby deserves to be remembered for his good and wise deeds, which far outweigh his evil deeds. It's healthy to celebrate good things... celebrate any example of every world leader who isn't consumed by sadism and narcissism. imho. It's possible to do so without forgetting nor emphasizing the bad things. Plus... timing man... your timing just sucks.
He’s hailed as a hero, when the American Left, media & academia demonized the man WHO WON THE COLD WAR.
Reagan stood firm and faced them down. Gorbachev sucked at being a communist.
And he butchered Lithuanians who wanted freedom.
Fuck that guy, and long live Ronald Reagan.
Ronald Reagan, the man who declared ketchup a vegetable and repealed help for those suffering for mental illness. What a hero!
Sorry he won the Cold War.
Scoreboard, Comrade.
The fact that I don't approve of his policies in no way makes me a communist sympathizer. It mean's I'm a humanist.
And what where Gorbachev’s ketchup policies? And what does domestic ketchup policy have to do with a discussion of the Cold War?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup_as_a_vegetable
It has nothing to do with the cold war, and everything to do with Reagan's policies.
What did you think of his policy of crushing the slave empire of the USSR?
I frankly care more about how we treat our fellow Americans.
Right. Ketchup policies are important.
Comrade.