Peter Practice 🇨🇭 🇨🇦 🇩🇪<p>Wish they’d elect a <a href="https://toot.community/tags/pope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pope</span></a> like <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Gorbachev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gorbachev</span></a>. Let me explain: Guy rises through the ranks and once in power at the top of the <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Catholic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Catholic</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Church" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Church</span></a>, declares its <a href="https://toot.community/tags/dissolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dissolution</span></a>. Ends the <a href="https://toot.community/tags/nonsense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nonsense</span></a>, returns the stolen <a href="https://toot.community/tags/assets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assets</span></a> and pays <a href="https://toot.community/tags/restitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>restitution</span></a> to the abused children. Wouldn’t that be great?</p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/ReligionPoisonsEverything" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReligionPoisonsEverything</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/ChristopherHitchens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChristopherHitchens</span></a></p>
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Ramesh #NotGoingBack<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gorbachev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gorbachev</span></a> just crapped his pants! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a> said "Mr <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gorbochov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gorbochov</span></a>, Tear Down This Wall"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TextsFromThe80s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TextsFromThe80s</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HashTagGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HashTagGames</span></a></p>
Nathaniel Gregory<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gorbachev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gorbachev</span></a> created the artificial <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> shortage in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USSR</span></a> in the 80's in a deliberate attempt to sabotage the USSR, not that the revisionist monster that was created was even worth saving at that point but still.</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220119150627/https://fort-russ.com/2016/04/gorbachev-created-artificial-shortage/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2022011915</span><span class="invisible">0627/https://fort-russ.com/2016/04/gorbachev-created-artificial-shortage/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Liberals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Liberals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Election</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DemocraticParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DemocraticParty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DNC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DNC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicanParty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RNC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RNC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JDVance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JoeBiden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JoeBiden</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KamalaHarris</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimWalz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimWalz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascists</span></a></p>
Nathaniel Gregory<p>I need <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/liberals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>liberals</span></a> to understand something about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MikhailGorbachev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MikhailGorbachev</span></a> policies in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SovietUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SovietUnion</span></a> & what he actually did.</p><p>You know that "Fairness Doctrine" you like to talk about so much? Well <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gorbachev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gorbachev</span></a> essentially did the same thing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a> did in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a>, he allowed <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/farright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>farright</span></a> propaganda to penetrate the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USSR</span></a> airwaves.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Election</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DemocraticParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DemocraticParty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicanParty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JDVance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KamalaHarris</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimWalz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimWalz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a></p>
Burkhard Maria Zimmermann<p>'We were met at the airport by a driver in a big limousine that they said used to be <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gorbachev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gorbachev</span></a> ’s. Those days in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Moscow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Moscow</span></a>, there were still three lanes: two going opposite ways and then another in the middle for important people. </p><p>So we swept into Moscow in Gorbachev’s limousine.' </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/petshopboys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>petshopboys</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/mar/12/neil-tennant-pet-shop-boys-russia-putin-gay-club-mtv" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/music/2025/mar</span><span class="invisible">/12/neil-tennant-pet-shop-boys-russia-putin-gay-club-mtv</span></a></p>
Ray Jepson<p>I wonder if the ultimate result of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> will be a dissolution of the US in a similar way to how <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Gorbachev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gorbachev</span></a> led to the break away of Soviet Republics?</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a></p>
The Dialectical Communist 🇵🇸🇾🇪<p><a href="https://youtu.be/8GUOPHl6nDk" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/8GUOPHl6nDk</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Gorbachev sucked!!! Hakim made a short video on how much he sucked!!</p><p><a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/gorbachev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gorbachev</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/USSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USSR</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/sovietunion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sovietunion</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/sovietunioncollapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sovietunioncollapse</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/cia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cia</span></a></p>
Boomerissimo.it<p>Quello che Gorbachev non sapeva<br>🛑 Il McDonald’s di Mosca e i suoi effetti imprevisti 👇</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/storia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>storia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/sovietunion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sovietunion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/mcdonalds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mcdonalds</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/gorbachev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gorbachev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/moscow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>moscow</span></a></p><p><a href="https://boomerissimo.it/2025/02/09/unione-sovietica-il-panino-fatale-crollo-al-primo-morso/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">boomerissimo.it/2025/02/09/uni</span><span class="invisible">one-sovietica-il-panino-fatale-crollo-al-primo-morso/</span></a></p>
Ray Jepson<p>It's notable that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Gorbachev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gorbachev</span></a> was excited by computers in a way similar to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> enthusiasts.</p><p>He believed computers would be able to replace the human bureaucrats that ran the Soviet economy and do a better job since they could take into account all the economic information at once.</p><p>Now, we have Musk believing the same thing is possible in the US with a much smaller scale...</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ussr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ussr</span></a></p>
Mark Aylward 🇨🇦<p>Don’t let history repeat itself! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/elon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>putin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gorbachev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gorbachev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/election2028" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>election2028</span></a></p>
Giuseppe Michieli<p>The Guardian view on <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/arms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arms</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/control" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>control</span></a>: essential to prevent the total <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/devastation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>devastation</span></a> of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>war</span></a> | Editorial <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/27/the-guardian-view-on-arms-control-essential-to-prevent-the-total-devastation-of-nuclear-war" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2024/dec/27/the-guardian-view-on-arms-control-essential-to-prevent-the-total-devastation-of-nuclear-war</span></a> </p><p>Next November marks 40 years since the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> president Ronald <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a> and the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Soviet</span></a> leader Mikhail <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Gorbachev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gorbachev</span></a> declared that “a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought”. The statement was striking – not least because their militaries were pouring billions into preparing for an unwinnable conflict.</p>
Siberian<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlexanderKosolapov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlexanderKosolapov</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>АлександрКосолапов</span></a> Gorbi-Mao; 1991<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mastoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastoart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mao" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mao</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gorbachev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gorbachev</span></a></p>
Putin's IBS<p>On December 25, 1991, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Gorbachev" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gorbachev</span></a> announced his resignation as the President of the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/USSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USSR</span></a>, and the era of the "<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Sovok" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sovok</span></a>" was over.</p><p>For everyone except <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Russia</span></a> .</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/putinisamasskiller" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>putinisamasskiller</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/putinisawarcriminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>putinisawarcriminal</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@kardinal691" class="u-url mention">@<span>kardinal691</span></a></span></p>
Ramesh #NotGoingBack<p>⬆️ <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@paraw" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>paraw</span></a></span> >> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> we know quite well that we do what the US say…</p><p>Irrefutable proof in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeorgeWBush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeWBush</span></a> steamrolling <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UN</span></a> over <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a>'s objections in 2nd <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GulfWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GulfWar</span></a> just to avenge his dad <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeorgeHWBush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeHWBush</span></a>. </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@benroyce" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>benroyce</span></a></span> >> "big guy gets what he wants" or "we follow rules"</p><p>In <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a>, we swing like a pendulum — former is in vogue when <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> are in power, latter when <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a>. </p><p>Even <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> heeded <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a>'s call, "Mr <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gorbachev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gorbachev</span></a>, tear down this wall" — That was a good thing in a different era.</p>
tootbrute<p>Just finished reading: Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union - Vladislav M. Zubok.</p><p>fascinating. it was interesting that in the 90s when ukraine had a referendum that only 54% of the crimean population voted to leave the USSR. seems we are still dealing with this right now. advisors and others told yeltsin to deal with this at the time but he was too busy drinking or something i guess.</p><p>worth a read if you want to know all the behind the scenes stuff...gorbachev isn't the master of democracy the west makes him out to be.</p><p><a href="https://fedi.arkadi.one/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://fedi.arkadi.one/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://fedi.arkadi.one/tags/gorbachev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gorbachev</span></a> <a href="https://fedi.arkadi.one/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a></p>
Putin's IBS<p>"More historical revelations of other countries shafting <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ukraine</span></a>!" 🤬</p><p>🤬 <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Russia</span></a> and the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>US</span></a> jointly pressured <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> to sign the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Budapest_Memorandum" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Budapest_Memorandum</span></a>, while <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Gorbachev" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gorbachev</span></a> threatened to lose <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Crimea" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Crimea</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Donetsk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Donetsk</span></a></p><p>This became known from the declassified transcript of the negotiations between the then <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>US</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Russian</span></a> presidents <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Bill_Clinton" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bill_Clinton</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Boris_Yeltsin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Boris_Yeltsin</span></a>.</p>
Tim Mak<p>Soviet General Secretary Mikhail <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Gorbachev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gorbachev</span></a> could not think of a better solution than a law that restricted the sale of alcohol.</p>
Dmitry Borodaenko<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@benroyce" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>benroyce</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.circle.lt/tags/Transdnistria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Transdnistria</span></a> didn't "break away" from Moldova in 1990 any more than <a href="https://mastodon.circle.lt/tags/Donbas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Donbas</span></a> "broke away" from <a href="https://mastodon.circle.lt/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a>. <a href="https://mastodon.circle.lt/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a>, first as USSR under <a href="https://mastodon.circle.lt/tags/Gorbachev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gorbachev</span></a>, then as RF under <a href="https://mastodon.circle.lt/tags/Yeltsin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Yeltsin</span></a>, invaded and waged hybrid war using paramilitaries and eventually regular army until they achieved their desired state of frozen conflict. Just as they did around the same to time in <a href="https://mastodon.circle.lt/tags/Abkhazia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Abkhazia</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.circle.lt/tags/SouthOssetia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthOssetia</span></a> regions of <a href="https://mastodon.circle.lt/tags/Georgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Georgia</span></a>.</p>
kuchinster<blockquote>In the early 80s, our ambassador Alexander #<a class="" href="https://rusx.org/search?tag=Yakovlev" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Yakovlev</a> (a classic example of the genre - bed and whiskey) was recruited in Canada. In 1985, he became Mikhail Gorbachev's chief adviser, and it was through Yakovlev that the last General Secretary was instilled with a plan to reform the USSR economy. In essence, the plan was very simple - to get rid of the superfluous Union republics and then, with the help of the USA, to become a prosperous capitalist state. It was this plan that #<a class="" href="https://rusx.org/search?tag=Gorbachev" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Gorbachev</a> proposed to Ronald #<a class="" href="https://rusx.org/search?tag=Reagan" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Reagan</a> at his very first meeting.<br><br>And here is the first remark - historians will probably argue endlessly whether Gorbachev knew or not that this plan was foisted on him by the Americans themselves, or was simply a fool. Personally, I think that he knew and openly and purposefully destroyed the Union. Because this plan included not only the collapse of the country's rather strong economy under the guise of reforms, but also the bringing to power of outright renegades - #<a class="" href="https://rusx.org/search?tag=Yeltsin" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Yeltsin</a> and the group of American advisers who stood behind him, who came to "help" the Soviet Union.<br>...<br><br>Specifically, for the deployment of military operations in Ukraine, a number of contractors were involved, both already well-identified Russophobes and specially established ones at that. Here, we will only list some of them and, accordingly, their main sponsors:<br><br>The Atlantic Council- Sponsored by SAAB, Raytheon, and Lockheed. This is the director of the Ukrainian project. Their main lobbyist, by the way, is the same Alperovich who recently authored "The World on the Brink."<br><br>The Center for Analysis of European Policy (established in 2005) - Sponsored specifically by Lockheed, BAE System, Bel Helicopter, and Raytheon, and was designed to promote the agenda in the media.<br><br>The German Marshall Fund- Sponsored by the Ministry of Defense of Latvia, Airbus, Boeing, and Raytheon. The main lobbyist is still the same William Kristol, and the former president of Estonia and our old enemy McFaul are also involved.<br><br>The Institute for the Study of War (2007) - Sponsored by Raytheon and General Dynamics Dean Corporation. The director of the institute is Kimberly Kagan (wife of Victoria Nuland's husband's brother).<br><br>These are just a few of the contractors that, by various estimates, handled up to $7 billion in U.S. government and private spending on military corporations to fuel the Ukrainian war. Much of that money ended up in the pockets of the #<a class="" href="https://rusx.org/search?tag=Nuland" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Nuland</a> family and the #<a class="" href="https://rusx.org/search?tag=Kagan" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Kagan</a> clan, who are connected to the #<a class="" href="https://rusx.org/search?tag=Clinton" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Clinton</a> and #<a class="" href="https://rusx.org/search?tag=Obama" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Obama</a> families.</blockquote><br>#<a class="" href="https://rusx.org/search?tag=USA" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">USA</a> #<a class="" href="https://rusx.org/search?tag=US" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">US</a> #<a class="" href="https://rusx.org/search?tag=american" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">american</a> #<a class="" href="https://rusx.org/search?tag=deepstate" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">deepstate</a> #<a class="" href="https://rusx.org/search?tag=CIA" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">CIA</a> #<a class="" href="https://rusx.org/search?tag=MIC" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">MIC</a> #<a class="" href="https://rusx.org/search?tag=warmongers" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">warmongers</a> #<a class="" href="https://rusx.org/search?tag=neocons" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">neocons</a> #<a class="" href="https://rusx.org/search?tag=russophobia" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">russophobia</a> #<a class="" href="https://rusx.org/search?tag=ukraine" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">ukraine</a> #<a class="" href="https://rusx.org/search?tag=anti-Russia" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">anti-Russia</a> #<a class="" href="https://rusx.org/search?tag=ukrainian" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">ukrainian</a> #<a class="" href="https://rusx.org/search?tag=war" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">war</a> #<a class="" href="https://rusx.org/search?tag=history" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">history</a> #<a class="" href="https://rusx.org/search?tag=soviet" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">soviet</a> #<a class="" href="https://rusx.org/search?tag=russian" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">russian</a> #<a class="" href="https://rusx.org/search?tag=USSR" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">USSR</a> #<a class="" href="https://rusx.org/search?tag=Russia" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Russia</a><br><br> <a href="https://diasp.eu/u/harryhaller" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><span><a href="https://diasp.eu/u/harryhaller" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">harry haller</a> wrote the following <a href="https://diasp.eu/posts/b52e4d00481d013d5de8101b0efced44" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">post</a> <span class="">Thu, 29 Aug 2024 13:16:41 +0300</span></span> Specific Authors of the Ukrainian War - by Zinderneuf — <span class="">#^</span><a class="" href="https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/specific-authors-of-the-ukrainian" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/specific-authors-of-the-ukrainian</a>
anubis2814If <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=Gorbachev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gorbachev</span></a> had maintained one form of censorship much maintained most of the new press freedom, the <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=USSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USSR</span></a> might still be around. <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=hate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hate</span></a> speech divided the union so badly it broke apart. Gorby had no way of realizing just how much hate can sell for in a free market. Had he said "anything goes but hate speech" the massive resentment of other areas would not have been able to be surfaced and there would be a much higher level of unity. The <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=sovietunion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sovietunion</span></a> may well be still around but much more socially liberal but with all the same positives the union had. 72% of people in the union were in some form of black market trade so opening things up in a controlled manner like <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=Titoism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Titoism</span></a> might have worked out fairly well. But we will never know and instead most of the soviet union was strip mined by greedy <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=oligarchs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchs</span></a> for kopecks on the ruble giving creating a decade of trauma in the 90s that still haunts them today and makes them blindly loyal to <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Putin</span></a> who pulled them out of the worst of it.
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