Posted on 10/23/2005 7:20:54 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
WASHINGTON: The US and Russia had both emerged victorious at the end of the Cold War, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said.
"I would not be making a mistake to say that perestroika won. It succeeded," he said during a celebration of the 20th anniversary of reforms that ultimately ended the hostilities between the two nations.
Mr Gorbachev also reflected on the current state of world affairs, noting the role of the US as the sole superpower.
"America has a right to be a leader," he said, adding that "this leadership should be realised through partnership, not domination".
Former US president Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Colin Powell were among about 200 guests who attended what Mr Gorbachev described as a "meeting of old friends".
Mr Gorbachev is credited with engineering a series of reforms, called perestroika, in the Soviet Union that led to the fall of communism.
In 1990, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work.
"It was obvious from the beginning with perestroika blooming in Russia, there was a new openness, a new sense of freedom, there was a new leader," Mr Clinton said.
"He will go down in history as a person who changed the world for the better."
Brought to you by the letters B and S.
They won't go. After Communism fell it lost its attraction.
Then some of those Chinese leaders must be right up your alley.
Right Slick!
Ronald Reagan will go down in history as the person who not only won the Cold War, but ended the Soviet Union and vanquished Euro-communism in the process.
LMAO!!!!
Gorby, like Slick Willie, is trying to rewrite history in search of a legacy.
I had previously read a profile of the present day life of this man. It was,I believe in the redoubtable CANADA FREE PRESS. I hastily accessed Google. I hope I have the facts. What rankles is this. Now I did not get much time to double check. Herewith. American military bases were being closed. The area know as the PRESIDIO seemed to be doomed to oblivion.
The United Nations got in there. Huge sums of money was expended and this man-Gorbachev was ensconced there. Yes, San Francisco. Now like the International Socialist that he is, he dares flip his finger at America.
It is said that those who believe in a conspiracy of a New World Order, might be wacko. I wonder?
Either one (self) laughs or cries,at the article. (Canada Free Press. Judi Mcleod. (2004)
Better stick a HUGE barf alert on the picture of those three delusional whack jobs.
Just about blew chunks meself -- and I'm tough.
[Apart from a lifetime supply of brown nosings by the KKKling Tong Crime Family and such librium-dependant droolers as the person whose name escapes me but was once important around CNN and every other member of the hate-America gang, about all Gormless Gorby ever "won" was a one-way plane ride back from the Black Sea to oblivion, courtesy of Russia's by then already effective President, "Boozing-Boris" Yeltsen]
Yeah, okay Gorby, Russia 'won'.
When the soviet union collapsed everyone got a pony. Is that about it?
The stain got to his brain.
I had a college professor state in a classroom that the Russians single-handedly won World War II.
Delusion abounds.
This level of mendacity takes my breath away.
And he will be a hardcore commie as well!
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