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> much better if Gorbachev had been the head of the post-USSR Russia Gorbachev wanted to keep USSR intact. He didn't want a post-USSR Russia. He initiated refe
by starik36 4y ago
> much better if Gorbachev had been the head of the post-USSR Russia
Gorbachev wanted to keep USSR intact. He didn't want a post-USSR Russia. He initiated referendums to that end. But USSR was already on the train to dissolution and nothing was going to stop it.
- insane_dreamer 4y agoHe wanted to keep the USSR intact but also understood that was no longer an option. I'm sure he would have accepted to be PM of Russia but he was considered part of the "communist regime" and wasn't the one standing on the tanks (lets ignore the fact that Yeltin was also part of the communist regime), so that didn't happen.
- gumby 4y ago> Gorbachev wanted to keep USSR intact. Indeed. He didn't weigh in on the current debacle but he praised Putin's seizure of Crimea. He was a product of his upbringing and honestly he always seemed like a weak player to me -- but really I have no idea how difficult it might have been to bring off the reforms he did under Andropov, Chernenko and then his own premiership.