Final Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev Dead At 91



Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union and a transformational figure who helped end the Cold War, has died at 91, according to the Gorbachev Foundation.

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26 comments

  1. What a loss to this world we shall miss you dearly thank you for fighting off imperialism. And we are glad you have left us Putin

  2. A flurry of ridicule escorted him to the grave,
    Others just laughed wildly.
    And only I, only I sobbed.
    I dreamed so much of seeing him hanged.

  3. Dan Cannon
    0 секунд назад
    after crushing ussr life in fromer ussr becsme a nightmare/. Just imagine —–!!!! to live on 1 dollar per day.!… can you belive this?!…..everyting what he has done — became a reason for appearing a new evil that was not existed in ussr/ . before him nobody new in soviet union what is the word economics/…now very shortly but very understable about what has happened when he appeared in the world as the general secretary of the communistc party of ussr/.
    so lets start:
    1) Blast in nuclear station in Chernoble. —- Everybody was shocked in ussr.
    2) Economical crisis.
    3) He allowed to make business. —Appeared first rich in usssr. And appeared mob,kidnappings and so on/
    4) he allowed to show american movies of all kinds /. Adultery and etc/
    5) He allowed to pop singers to become a millioners/ —
    6) he allowed to talk dirty about communism.

    Afterwards.:——- madness and crushing of that country/

    AND NOW READ ATTANTIVELY. EVERYTHING THAT WAS WRITTENG ABOVE WAS ABSENT BEFORE HIM/. INCLUDING NOT EXISTING OF USSR.
    RESUME: EVERYTHING HE"D DONE WAS A NIGHTMARE/

  4. A TRIBUTE TO GORBACHEV

    He had the absolute power

    to destroy the lives of ordinary people.

    He even had the power to destroy the world many times over.

    He was worshipped like a demigod and

    his command was obeyed like the word of god.

    He had reached the point in his life where

    nobody could question or disobey him…

    but,

    instead of abusing his power like his predecessors

    He chose to use that power to serve mankind.

    He chose humanity over despotism and

    chose peace over war.

    He saw people as equal to himself and

    realised that people have as many rights as he does.

    He felt the pain and suffering of ordinary people and

    chose to change the demonic system

    by giving people rights to live as free men…

    It was his moral courage and his wisdom that made him take on the establishment knowing full well that he might end up paying the price with his life, and the total destruction of his family.

    But he risked everything for a just cause.

    I SALUTE TO HIS COURAGE, HIS WISDOM AND HIS HUMANITY.

    https://youtu.be/GLujNV-9cf0

  5. What a shame, he tried to join the world together.

  6. In 1941 as World War II was raging kaiser Willhelm the second leader of Germany in World War I died in Holland. When this happened they were many comparisons between him and the German empire of 1871 to 1918 to that of Adolf Hitler and the then current conflict that was engulfing the world. In much the same way I am not surprised that people will probably be making similar comparisons between Mikal Gorbachev last leader of the Soviet union and Vladimir Putin the current leader of Russia. Especially since the policies of glasnost and perestroika and allowing the destruction of the Berlin wall are in every way the antithesis of the evil coming from Vladimir Putin who has crushed dissent in Belarus assassinated his own opponents in his country and unleashed international wars of aggression in Georgia and most recently in Ukraine. The world has truly lost a beacon of hope and freedom in these trying times. Let us hope that Vladimir Putin will not come to nearly the same peaceful ending Gorbachev did and that Putin‘s empire lasts much shorter and is much less successful than the Soviet Union, hopefully without the use of nuclear weapons

  7. Gorbachev is responsible for a brutal crackdown in Kazakhstan (1986), a massacre in Georgia (1989), "Black January" in Azerbaijan (1990), the bloody events in Lithuania & Latvia (1991). I can't believe the man was awarded the Nobel Peace Price.

  8. he had good ideas, but the way he did it… very bad job. In Russia, he has no popularity, because of his fault, millions of people in Russia have become beggars. I will give an example, he opened the Russian market to the United States without conditions, the result was that we began to buy 90% of chicken meat in the United States, millions of our workers went to sell old things on the street, only under Putin everything came back. So it was with many things. He created jobs in the West, and in Russia, under him, the greatest mortality and a decrease in the birth rate began. We have nothing to praise him for, he thought well, did badly.

  9. Wow his term ended in the year 91 and so did his life.

  10. Stalin was partiot but he was anti-partiot. He was Georgian.He wasn't Russian. Gorbachev screw Russia and Russians.He harmed Russians .In my opinion he was wellpaided agent of the West . Dark heridage of this man.Raisa Gorbachev was Ukrainian (Ukrainian ethnicity and his adviser advisor She get his to destroy/ decompose the Soviet Union and Homeless Russian kind in the 90s (children on Niemcov and Jelcyn). Czernobyl act of sabotage this ma Anatolij Diatłow. Diatłow He to dis on purpose. Gorbachev USA Poland Italy France Japan Kanada Czechs attacked Russia 1918-22 Siberian intervention. The bolsheviks won . USA imposed santions on Russia. Europe was connected with USA. American crisis 1929-33 destroyed German economy but isolated Russia was resistant/immune. Germany will be weak without Russia.This man/Gorbachev in negative historical character. He left mess.Putin are trying to clean up this Gorbachev's mess

    USA armed and financed Third Reich against Russia . Gorbachev is negative person in Russian history. He weakened this country. today we have domination only one military agressive block called NATO (Serbia Iraq, Afganistan, Libya,Korea, Vietnam, Laos Cambodia, arabian spring, colorful revolution, delivering the weapon to support fratricidal wars) Gorbachev weakened and humilated Russia.White Russia is weaker.Multinational Soviet Russia was strong. Russia needs immigrants and scientist form postsoviet countires, Russian minorities immigrants from KRLD, China, India, China, Laos Vietnam Cambodia, Syria, Thailand, Iran, Iraq, Russia need hyperloops sild road, Russia needs modern weapon unmanned tanks, drones UAV revolution, modern satelites, S-800, S-1000, S-1200, anti-aircraft weapon, anti-tank sysem Arena M, kornet, shilka, Rtuć, Russia is endangered. Wehrmacht's soldiers made photo of burned deastoyed soviet sanks.Wehrmacht destroyed many soviet soldiers tanks military cars and Russians but Russia won. Ukraine is new Third Reich for Russians new rival like USA.Ukrainian offensive Western wunderwaffe new battle of .Battle of New Luk kurski 2.0 . March on Rome 1922 aka maidan 2013/14, Western Ukrainians and Belarusians greeted Wehrmacht in 1941 destroying statues on Lenin and Stalin, aka Leninopad, many Western Ukrainians and Belarussians served in Wehrmacht (Himmler's decision) ,They They suppressed revold in Warsaw in 1944 and protected adolf' bunker in Berlin. They killed poles in Wolyn in 1943 by saws, pitchforks, axes, shovels, knives for pigs , .Russia is strong.Decomposition destrucrion of EU . Natalia wowk and her companion murdered beautiful young innocent Daria Dugina to celebrate 24.08.2022. Russia needs Russian Mossad to eliminate terrorists abroad who killed Russian civilians. Europe sold Russia military lumber and old cars, armoured carriers between 2001 and 2018. Cesja syberia na rzecz chin w zamian Rosja pomoże w pokonaniu Tajwanu który sle broń na Ukraine. Ukraina i Tajwan to sojusznicy antyrosja i antychiny pionki Roosja i Chiny stworzą militarną federacją najpierw najemnicy i odsprzedanie ros.sprzetu poten dostawy tunelami nowoczesnej broni i 20000000 żołnierzy z Chin militarny sojusz lub rusochiny współny podzial arktyki sojusz Chiny-Rosja-Mongolia-KRLD-Iran-Armeny-Syria-Kazakhstan 100 tys żołnierzy wieżniowie bezdomni z Rosji na front ich wcielą wojna potrwa do 2035 lub 2041 lub 2049 Putin za pół roku oglosi wojne i zaciąg 5mln zolnierzy teraz 150 tys walczy z 1.5 mln Ukrainców lub zrzuci atom na 10 miast gł Odessę lub Kijów. 1922-1991 time of Soviet Union was time of Peace . If Kazakhstan and Mongolia will try to join nATO or AUKUS this countries will be nuked by endangered Russia and China..

  11. Evil empire hah… That title suits the U.S. better.

  12. A Great Leader of the 20th Century. . .

    Who made a valiant attempt to end the Cold-War. . .

    By dissolving the USSR and dismantling a vast number of nuclear-weapons, with an epic comprehensive Arms-Control-Treaty

    His FATAL-ERROR?

    TRUSTING THE UNITED-STATES. . .

    And naively believing that DEMOCRACY rules US.

    We are ALL ruled by the MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL-COMPLEX.

    'Dismantling' that 'complex' remains unfinished. . .

    As we stare down an abyss of a new gen of supersonic-NUKES…..

  13. I'll always look at him as one of the heroes of the world. Someone who helped balance power and kept the west in check and kept america from running over everyone else in the world.🤔

  14. Gorbachev is a very great leader. In the world, the Cold War state would still continue when there was not him.

  15. Мишка Меченый таки отбросил копыта!

  16. 冇眼睇。當年窮到貨架雞疍都冇。埶番正。現又攪到ㄧ屁屎。

  17. So, Trump was going to sell American Military secrets for cash?

  18. Gorbachev showed the country the path to Freedom, but misanthropic Putin chose fascism

  19. Его в могилу провожал насмешек шквал,

    Иные хохотали просто бешено,

    И только я, один лишь я рыдал,

    Я так мечтал узреть его повешенным

    He was escorted to the grave by a mocking squall,

    Others laughed just furiously,

    And only me, only I sobbed,

    I so longed to see him hanged.

  20. The Soviet Union dissolved in '91.
    Gorbachev died at age 91.

    Coincidence?!

  21. CONFIRMED. Are you naive? Mikhail Gorbachev was killed of course. No doubt, being against the war, he was required to hang himself as per Putin FSB request. When hang dying, several organs were taken from her body as per Putin torture request.

  22. He was a greatest soviet leader long live the Soviet Union!