Liam O'Mara IV, PhDMar 11
#MikhailGorbachev — the last #Soviet leader and the only one born in the #USSR — was elected to the General Secretary position on #ThisDayInHistory in 1985. His slow move towards #SocialDemocracy, and reform projects #glasnost & #perestroika, accidentally undermined the state.
kriykatDec 26
Jeffery Sachs: Two Centuries of Russophobia & Rejection of Peace
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/24/jeffery-sachs-two-centuries-of-russophobia-rejection-of-peace/
While other powers are presumed to have legitimate security interests that must be balanced and accommodated, Russia’s interests are presumed illegitimate. Russophobia functions less as a sentiment than as a systemic distortion — one that repeatedly undermines Europe’s own security.…
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Jeffery Sachs: Two Centuries of Russophobia & Rejection of Peace

While other powers are presumed to have legitimate security interests that must be balanced and accommodated, Russia’s interests are presumed illegitimate. Russophobia functions less as a sentiment than as a systemic distortion — one that repeatedly undermines Europe’s own security. By Jeff

Consortium News
Liam O'Mara IV, PhDNov 19
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1985, #RonaldReagan first met #MikhailGorbachev in Geneva. In addition to ending the #ArmsRace, they discussed whether each would help the other in a hypothetical alien invasion. Reagan noted later that "we are all human beings... on this Earth together".
David GraylessAug 30, 2025
#OnThisDay in 2022, #MikhailGorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1985-91), died after an unspecified long and grave illness at 91.
#RIP 🕊️🪦🎚️🕯️
iokevinsJul 18, 2024

Listening to audiobook THE FUTURE IS HISTORY: HOW TOTALITARIANISM RECLAIMED RUSSIA (2017), by Masha Gessen

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

#MashaGessen #Russia #Book #Audiobook #Libby #Library #PublicLibrary #BorisYeltsin #Soviet #USSR #MikhailGorbachev #Putin #VladimirPutin

Masha Gessen - Wikipedia

NonilexOct 20, 2023

“President #Biden could very well go down in history as the last American president born during #WWII & shaped by a view of #AmericanPower nurtured in the #ColdWar. No other leader on the world stage today can boast that they sat in the Israeli PM’s office 50yrs ago w/ #GoldaMeir, or discussed dismantling #Soviet nuclear weapons w/ #MikhailGorbachev.

- David E. Sanger
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/us/politics/biden-israel-ukraine.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Biden’s Moment: A President Convinced of America’s Role in the World

In a fractured political moment at home and abroad, it is unclear whether President Biden can bring many Americans along.

The New York Times
BC Info BotSep 26, 2023
The Tyee: We Might Think We Know Russia. Why We’re Wrong https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/09/26/We-Think-We-Know-Russia/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #UnionofSovietSocialistRepublics #CatherinetheGreat #post-SovietRussia #StoryofRussiabook #MikhailGorbachev #NikitaKhrushchev #AlexanderNevsky #ByzantineEmpire #CzarNicholasII #Russianhistory #PetertheGreat #VladimirPutin #OrlandoFiges #GoldenHorde #JosefStalin #KyivanRus
We Might Think We Know Russia. Why We’re Wrong | The Tyee

And what our assumptions tell us. Inside a book by Orlando Figes, and where ‘The Story of Russia’ remains unwritten.

The Tyee
Soh Kam YungAug 31, 2022

RIP. I remember being glued to the TV at the time, watching the attempt coup events play out in real time.

"Mikhail Gorbachev was one of the most influential political figures of the 20th Century.

He presided over the dissolution of a Soviet Union that had existed for nearly 70 years and had dominated huge swathes of Asia and Eastern Europe."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-13669848

#Obituaries #USSR #Russia #SovietUnion #MikhailGorbachev #ColdWar

Obituary: Mikhail Gorbachev - Soviet leader who helped end Cold War

His efforts to democratise his country led to the fall of communism, the end of the Cold War and the break-up of the Eastern Bloc.

BBC News
Jim Donegan 🎵 ✅Aug 30, 2022

#RIP #MikhailGorbachev

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__mRXMBG0Vo&ab_channel=DWNews

#Gorbachev #SovietUnion #Russia #USSR #ColdWar #Glasnost #Perestroika

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev dies aged 91 | DW News

YouTube
Khurram Wadee ✅Aug 30, 2022

#MikhailGorbachev, #Soviet leader who ended #ColdWar, dies aged 91 | Mikhail Gorbachev | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/30/mikhail-gorbachev-dies-soviet-leader-92

#Russia #USSR

Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader who ended cold war, dies aged 91

Russian news agencies report death of last leader of Soviet Union at Central clinical hospital in Moscow

The Guardian