Mikhail Gorbachev

• Sergej Sumlenny, “Mikhail Gorbachev died. He was a criminal who ordered to violently suppress peaceful protest in Riga, Vilnius, Tbilisi, Alma-Ata, and other cities. He was cheered in the West because the West did not care about dead Kazakhs or Lithuanians. It is a pity he was never tried in court”, August 30, 2023, (thread) (pdf)

• Today a western fella told me a phrase that got me thinking. And it was “I thought Navalny is a kind of modern Gorbachev”. Let’s debunk it. Gorbachev is seen in the West as the liberal leader, who put an end to the USSR. And it is completely incorrect. Let’s see why.

• Soviet tanks hit Lithuanian capital

• The Decline and Fall of Gorbachev and the Soviet State

• The Myth That Mikhail Gorbachev ‘Ended the Cold War’

• In protecting the KGB, Gorbachev laid the foundation for Putin’s gangster-state

• How Margaret Thatcher pleaded with Gorbachev not to let the Berlin Wall fall

• https://twitter.com/BadBalticTakes/status/1621611865557049344

• https://www.gorby.ru/en/presscenter/publication/show_24204/

• Chicken Kiev speech given by George H. W. Bush

https://twitter.com/BadBalticTakes/status/1564886608201105414

Gorbachev: Baltic states fueling artificial tensions Ex-Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev said the Baltic states are fuelling artificial tensions around the 1939 Soviet-German non-aggression treaty, known also as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which led to their inclusion in the Soviet Union. In a Friday interview with Interfax, Gorbachev praised President Vladimir Putin for recalling that the Soviet Congress of People’s Deputies officially denounced the pact in 1989. However, analyzing political events surrounding WWII, Gorbachev pointed out that “there was not only the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, but there were also the Potsdam and Yalta Conferences, at which documents were signed by the Allies.” “Any wars, especially that one, produce changes in the world order. But there was also the 1975 Helsinki Act, which consolidated all post-war realities 30 years after the war. What do we do with this?” he said. “But the world developed further, the Cold War ended, democratic processes started developing in the Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe, and all these changes eventually helped the Baltic states withdraw from the USSR, which was endorsed by the Soviet State Council,” he said.

Interfax, May 6, 2005

https://twitter.com/bucephalus424/status/1568289831691624454

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_9_tragedy

https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/112006

https://twitter.com/BadBalticTakes/status/1564849586019123201

https://twitter.com/jpop_el_jefe/status/1634723738729037825

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1634723738729037825.html

jpop-Gorbachev.pdf