A Complete Failure?
Thats why as soon as the wall came down every fuck from that part of the world could not get out fast enough, i would say the commie disease could have been a factor, he is allso forgeting that the UK (europe) is 100% behind the USA, unlike france (europe) no show , where is Mag T when you need her?
And BTW go clean up the all those rotting nuke subs you have sinking around your coast line, before greepiss spot them. 
I see no reason why we should pay any attention to a man whose only enduring contribution toward “improving global politics” was made at the tip of Boris Yeltsin’s big boot.
By the way, is he still running around in Green drag nowadays? Or has he lost that fig leaf, as well?
Ya think this douchbag would have torn down the wall if Regan hadn’t pushed him to the edge. Didn’t think so. Sit down and Shut The FUCK UP gorbie.
i don’t happen to think Gorby’s so dumb.
he played a pretty good hand, considering what he was dealt.
had he grown up in this country, where do you think he’d be right now?
former President Gorbachev, most likely.
Posted by greenie
10/15/2006 at 08:04 PM
Gorby was the man the world needed at the time. Brezhnev would never have let the air out of the SU easily.
But, since then, his best asset, his wife, has died, his ticket to the world’s stage, Reagan, has been gone for over a decade now, all things considered, and he sits mumbling about lost opportunities without, as usual for complainers, giving any details.
Yeh, ‘twould be nice if the whole wide world sprouted butterflies and rainbows and flowers and little lambs after 1991, but a whole pile of shit heads decided to wiggle after the Soviet bootheel was removed from thier necks. Can we say Serbia, Chechnya, any number of Bumfuckistans and the Islamopigfuckers?
on the whole, not a bad piece of commentary, rickvid. bravo.
Posted by greenie
10/15/2006 at 10:29 PM
Unable to extricate itself from its Cold War mentality, the United States was playing a dwindling role in world politics, while Russia, China, Brazil, Europe, India and Japan were becoming stronger, Gorbachev said.
Which is why every problem on Earth is laid at our door for solution instead of Russia, China, Brazil, Europe, India and Japan’s. Because we are “dwindling”. I wish.
Gorby was the man the world needed at the time. Brezhnev would never have let the air out of the SU easily.
Rick, Gorbachev never tried to let the air out of the Soviet Union. He was trying to save it, so he and his fellow communists could hang on to their power and perks. He had no intention of destroying the Soviet Union, and up until the moment Boris Yeltsin booted him into irrelevancy, he was doing his best to hold it together. Even if he made a number of poor judgments along such lines, he remained (and remains) a devout and unrepentent communist.
On the other hand, Leonid Brezhnev did as much as anyone to let the air out of the Soviet Union by trying to freeze it in time, and by pretending that nothing was changing, unlike his forerunners. They all recognized that the Soviet system had to be updated in accordance with changing times, and each tried in his own way to meet such needs as he saw. Even Stalin kept the Soviet system in flux, if only by repeated purges, in order to keep it from ossifying. And Lenin, Soviet saint of all saints, changed course a number of times in order to cling to power (i.e. “war communism,” the NEP, etc).
It may be that Gorbachev was the man the world needed at the time. But the man he intended to be is hardly the man he turned out to be.
10/15/2006 at 03:37 PM
