• superkret@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    Wasn’t Gorbachev the chillest of all Russian rulers?

    He was the most friendliest, from a Western point of view.
    But he was also the last, meaning that he presided over the time when the Soviet Union was collapsing.

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      3 days ago

      He was the most friendliest, from a Western point of view.

      Yeah, but not the most obedient. That’s why the west preferred Yeltsin - and his faithful number two, Putin.