bentwaters81tfw Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11162893/How-sad-Vlad-Putin-expresses-sympathy-death-Mikhail-Gorbachev-aged-91.html 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanC Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 Sad news. I remember nipping out of work to see him during a visit to London. We all gathered outside Downing Street to see him sweep in. As someone also mentioned on the TV this morning, his security blokes were truly terrifying - 7 foot giants wearing leather trenchcoats. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackroadkill Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 Another good man gone. I'll bet he wasn't very impressed with the direction Russia has taken recently. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luis pacheco Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 He was well deceived by the West. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Norman Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 (edited) Not too liked in Russia Though especially in his home town. Ya man Bald and Bankrupt on youtube visited and talked to a few locals who were less than complementary If you have not come across the lad see link below. Some Great items https://www.youtube.com/c/baldandbankrupt/search?query=Gorbachev Edited August 31, 2022 by George Norman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmatthewbacon Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 Not surprising, since Russian TV has spent the last twenty years painting him as the man who lost the USSR and "Russia's Empire". Probably hear a different perspective on him and that empire if you asked people in Poland, (former) East Germany, Latvia or Hungary, for example... best, M. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 I almost universally hate politicians, but him I could tolerate. He had a friendly face, and did a bit of good in the world. Sad to see him go, but 91 isn't a bad age. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince1159 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 I wasn't going to post on here because of the politics,one thing i will say is i'd feel a lot safer it Mikhail Gorbachev Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were still in charge of their countries... 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
593jones Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 47 minutes ago, Vince1159 said: I wasn't going to post on here because of the politics,one thing i will say is i'd feel a lot safer it Mikhail Gorbachev Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were still in charge of their countries... I never thought I would find myself saying it, but so would I. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 Can we steer away from politics please? I know he was a politician, but we can say goodbye without straying into the good or the bad of what came next, as tempting as that might be. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairystick Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 A sad day, as Mr Gorbachev was a "revolutionary" in seeing that his country needed change. Sadly a lot of people only knew one way of life and "change" was to be feared. The period of glasnost enabled me to travel around the Soviet Union (as it still was at that time) and see what life was like prior to the fall of the Berlin wall (actually sleeping about 10 metres away from it for a few nights). The average Russian citizen was just wanting to get on with their lives, raise their children and do the things everyone does in life. May Mr Gorbachev rest peacefully. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairystick Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 On 9/1/2022 at 4:33 AM, George Norman said: Ya man Bald and Bankrupt on youtube... Darn it. He's now been kicked out! A sad day for adventuring in the former soviet republic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHx Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 Farewell to a truely historical figure. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Norman Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 8 hours ago, hairystick said: Darn it. He's now been kicked out! A sad day for adventuring in the former soviet republic. Yep saw that last night. SAD end TBH and as he said he was Painting the Russian people much different to the MSM. Loved watching him roam around the place and seeing place TBH I will never see. Some places were lovely, some were down right kips. That An-2 flight though!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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