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[quote=Anonymous]I think people understimate how brave he was.  It would have been so easy for him to be another Brezhnev, or Andropov, or just be a disinterested caretaker over a disintegrating empire.  Or he could have just decided to rob the country blind (get while the gettings good).  Or he could have tried to save it all by turning the clock back to Stalinism.  (Gee, Putin has done basically all of those things!). But he tried to fix what could be fixed and when it became apparent that the system was unfixable, he stepped aside.  That is astounding on so many levels.  Of course he wasn’t trying to destroy the USSR—that’s what makes him so amazing.

My theory on russia and the Ukraine is the Russians, especially Soviet Russians, are like the older brother that thinks that “we’re all family and we fight but at the end of the day we all love each other” and Ukraine is the younger brother that tells everyone “my awful older brother abused me and took advantage of me for years and now doesn’t understand why I won’t go on vacation with him”.    So I shout Gorbachev really got the Ukraine problem but I also don’t think he would have approved or destroying the country over a stupid macho ego play.  His style was the exact opposite from Putin.

RIP Milhael Sergeiyevitch.

And fyi I ate at that Pizza Hut and the security guards there were super rude and it was generally awful.  But I loved the enormous McDonald’s and the Taco Bell in the subway was like a light coming out from behind a cloud.[/quote]

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