In this weekly feature, I'll share a guest with you each week, and you tell me in only three words, what come to mind.
In Three Words...
Mikhail Gorbachev
LIVE! LIVE! Life is a banquet, and some sorry sons of bitches are starving!
LIVE! LIVE! Life is a banquet, and some sorry sons of bitches are starving!
tried to change
ReplyDeleteA genuine reformer
ReplyDeleteGlasnost and perestroika.
ReplyDeleteUnder-appreciated, misunderstood, approachable.
ReplyDeleteWell, he tried.
ReplyDeletePromoting social democracy
ReplyDeleteA decent man.
ReplyDeleteSmart, intelligent, knowing.
ReplyDeleteI read a recent clip on him. He he knew the US was in trouble. "The storming of the capitol was clearly planned in advance, and it's obvious by whom." He did not clarify to whom he was referring. Gorbachev also stated that the attack "called into question the future fate of the United States as a nation.
Couldn't stand Putin.
ReplyDeleteSelf-confident, polite, and tactful.
ReplyDeleteBroke Russian Mold. (Almost)
ReplyDeleteself-deprecating humor
ReplyDeleteWorld famous birthmark.
ReplyDeleteExcellent memory, workaholic.
ReplyDeleteI too once read a book about him. In it, Zhores Medvedev thought him a talented orator, in 1986 stating that "Gorbachev is probably the best speaker there has been in the top Party echelons.
Loyal, charismatic leader
ReplyDeleteGreat Russian Leadership
ReplyDeleteGood Old Days
ReplyDeleteGave away power
ReplyDeletedestined to fail
ReplyDeleteEnded Soviet Union
ReplyDeletevisionary, transformational leader
ReplyDeleteShook his hand.
ReplyDeleteDecent, independent, reformer
ReplyDeleteOpposite of Putin
Need. Him. Now.
ReplyDeleteJx
PS His name was Mikhail, not "Mikala"
Better back then.
ReplyDeleteHe started it.
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