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If you find this story interesting, I strongly recommend you read the new biography of Gorbachev: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393647013 https://wwnorton.com
by richk449 4y ago
If you find this story interesting, I strongly recommend you read the new biography of Gorbachev:
https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393647013 https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393647013
By the time Yeltsin visited that grocery store, Gorbachev had been working for decades to put himself into a position of power so that he could carefully shift the USSR to a liberal Democratic government with a market economy. The fact that he actually got himself into position to execute this plan is mind blowing. I don’t think I have ever read a book which so radically reshapes how I view a piece of history.
- dmitriid 4y agoHere's another thing to blow your mind: Gorbachev was the only Russian leader in history that resigned himself quietly, and then lived his life as a normal person. In all of Russian history. You could argue that Medvedev did, too, but this increasingly deranged puppet is sort of back in politics now.