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#gorbachev

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Burkhard Maria Zimmermann

'We were met at the airport by a driver in a big limousine that they said used to be #Gorbachev ’s. Those days in #Moscow, there were still three lanes: two going opposite ways and then another in the middle for important people.

So we swept into Moscow in Gorbachev’s limousine.'

#petshopboys #russia

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The Guardian · ‘We swept into Moscow in Gorbachev’s limousine’: Neil Tennant’s love affair with Russia – before the ‘cancer of Putin’By Neil Tennant
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Ray Jepson

It's notable that #Gorbachev was excited by computers in a way similar to #ai enthusiasts.

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.

Now, we have Musk believing the same thing is possible in the US with a much smaller scale...

#uspol#ussr
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Ramesh #NotGoingBack

⬆️ @paraw >> in #Europe we know quite well that we do what the US say…

Irrefutable proof in #GeorgeWBush steamrolling #UN over #France's objections in 2nd #GulfWar just to avenge his dad #GeorgeHWBush.

@benroyce >> "big guy gets what he wants" or "we follow rules"

In #US, we swing like a pendulum — former is in vogue when #Republicans are in power, latter when #Democrats.

Even #Russia heeded #Reagan's call, "Mr #Gorbachev, tear down this wall" — That was a good thing in a different era.

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tootbrute

Just finished reading: Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union - Vladislav M. Zubok.

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.

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.

#books#bookstodon#gorbachev
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kuchinster
In the early 80s, our ambassador Alexander #Yakovlev (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 #Gorbachev proposed to Ronald #Reagan at his very first meeting.

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 - #Yeltsin and the group of American advisers who stood behind him, who came to "help" the Soviet Union.
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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:

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."

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.

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.

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).

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 #Nuland family and the #Kagan clan, who are connected to the #Clinton and #Obama families.

#USA #US #american #deepstate #CIA #MIC #warmongers #neocons #russophobia #ukraine #anti-Russia #ukrainian #war #history #soviet #russian #USSR #Russia

harry haller wrote the following post Thu, 29 Aug 2024 13:16:41 +0300 Specific Authors of the Ukrainian War - by Zinderneuf — #^https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/specific-authors-of-the-ukrainian
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anubis2814
If #Gorbachev had maintained one form of censorship much maintained most of the new press freedom, the #USSR might still be around. #hate 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 #sovietunion 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 #Titoism might have worked out fairly well. But we will never know and instead most of the soviet union was strip mined by greedy #oligarchs 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 #Putin who pulled them out of the worst of it.
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General Strike Now

Lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov argues for a general strike by Russia's legal establishment in response to the arrest of Alexey Navalny's defence team ; Alexey ...

The largest mass arrest of lawyers in Russia’s modern history took place on October 13 when three lawyers defending the jailed opposition politician Alexey Navalny — Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin and Alexey Liptser — were taken into custody and now fac…#novayagazetaeurope #investigation #stories #gorbachev #politkovskaya #martynov #kostyuchenko #latynina #azar #putin #europe #eu #ukraine #war
Then they came for the lawyers

Novaya Gazeta EuropeThen they came for the lawyers. Lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov argues for a general strike by Russia’s legal establishment in response to the arrest of Alexey Navalny’s defence team — Novaya Gazeta EuropeThe largest mass arrest of lawyers in Russia’s modern history took place on October 13 when three lawyers defending the jailed opposition politician Alexey Navalny — Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin and Alexey Liptser — were taken into custody and now face politically motivated charges.
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Tim Mak

Another MP and dissident, Yaroslav Kendzor, explains why. He says that after the failure of the 1991 coup in #Moscow against #Gorbachev, many #Soviet republics decided to break away.

However, in almost every parliament, the communists had a majority, and #Ukraine was no exception.

Therefore, before voting for the Act of Independence of Ukraine, it was necessary to obtain the support of the Communists, who did not want the collapse of the USSR and the creation of other sovereign states.

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