[LIConFem]

Gorbachev was a stone communist, who was just pragmatic enough to see that continuing the cold war would completely bankrupt the USSR. And yet we're all supposed to get all misty when people talk about how he "ended the cold war".

*spit*

[rlmorel]

To the Left, Reagan wasn’t worth a cup of warm spit, but Gorbachov must be canonized as a saint.

His main feature is he wasn’t old, broken down, and decrepit when he was General Secretary.

Yeah. Gorbachov was “responsible for ending the Cold War” in the same way Hirohito was responsible for ending WWII...he occupied the seat of power in a defeated nation.

[jmacusa]

Gorbachev, Yeltsin ( the deceased drunken Bolshevik) and the whole criminal gang that surround Putin are all thieves.