Lithuania remembers the anniversary of the January Events today. Soviet tanks rolled into Vilnius in 1991 and crushed peaceful protesters at the TV tower. I spoke to some of the victims' friends and relatives for this article a few years ago: while Gorbachev is remembered fondly in the West, the Baltics can't forget the violence.
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/10/03/suing-gorbachev
#Lithuania #gorbachev #baltic #baltics #ussr #soviet #russia #UkraineWar #Ukraine #Lietuva #vilnius
@luciedigitalni .
'In reality, the end of the cold war and the fall of the Soviet Union were primarily the work of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev — two consequences of his radically reformist policies (the former intended, the latter unintended).'
Anyone alive at that time should know the truth of this. What #gorbachev achieved was incredible. He turned the tide to help loosen the rules and allow conquered USSR vassal.countries to run their own affairs.
But too many party members and officials lost their nasty little Soviet domination powers and worked towards his downfall.
It was completely ruined by his self indulgent successor #Yeltsin who was influenced by extreme pursuit of capitalist wealth, suck-up oligarchs and then developed #TrumpSyndrome, by behaving like a Tsar with authoritarian policies.
Then to cap it all, Yeltsin appointed #Putin as his successor and it all wrnt to hell again.
All four Moscow airports forced to close overnight amid massive Ukrainian drone strikes — Novaya Gazeta Europe
The Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow, December 2020. Photo: EPA/SERGEI ILNITSKY Several Russian airports, including all four airports in…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #azar #EU #Europe #gorbachev #investigation #kostyuchenko #latynina #martynov #novayagazetaeurope #politkovskaya #Putin #stories #Ukraine #War #World
https://www.newsbeep.com/305842/
GOЯBY #gorbachev #itcamefromtheestatesale
https://itcamefromtheestatesale.com/goяby-to-amerika-with-love/
A new catastrophe will soon befall humanity if US and others resume #NuclearTesting,which has caused 1000s of deaths
We must absolutely recreate a #MassMovement against #NuclearWeapons
Look at what the mass movement and #Gorbachev achieved in the '80s
(credit: Frank von Hippel)
Four arrested as France thwarts assassination attempt on Russian Putin opponent — Novaya Gazeta Europe
Vladimir Osechkin. Screenshot: Telegram France’s General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI) has arrested four people suspected of planning…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #azar #EU #Europe #gorbachev #investigation #kostyuchenko #latynina #martynov #novayagazetaeurope #politkovskaya #Putin #stories #Ukraine #War #World
https://www.newsbeep.com/192027/
40 Years of Reuters Pictures: 1985 - 1995
As Reuters Pictures marks its 40th anniversary, a look back at some of the most defining photos from its first decade.
U.S. President Ronald Reagan shakes hands at his first meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to sign an arms treaty in Geneva, November 19, 1985. The two leaders met for the first time to hold talks on international diplomatic relations and the nuclear arms race. REUTERS/Denis Paquin
#photography
#Reuters
#Reagan
#Gorbachev
German investigators identify all suspects in Nord Stream pipeline explosion — Novaya Gazeta Europe
German investigators have now identified all the suspects in the sabotage operation on the Nord Stream 1 and…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/89356/
So now it's at least twice that he's been excited about meeting a Temu Tsar.
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#Putin #Trump #TrumpIsARussianAsset #Russia #Ukraine #Gorbachev #TemuTsar or is it #TemuTzar or #TemuCzar #Ummm
I have heard some people argue that #Russia is justified in attacking #Ukraine because the West agreed with #Gorbachev that it would not expand #NATO into the Iron Curtain territory and Ukraine is "the final straw" after all the others already joined NATO.
So?
When Yeltzin took Russia out of the #USSR, the USSR ceased to exist and any agreements with that entity were rendered null and void.
I just wish #Putin would accept that fact.
Is #Trump an #American Mikhail #Gorbachev, mused a senior former #Chinese diplomat recently. He didn't mean in terms of principles, ethics or goodness but in terms of unmaking the Soviet Union
Is #Trump an #American Mikhail #Gorbachev, mused a senior former #Chinese diplomat recently. He didn't mean in terms of principles, ethics or goodness but in terms of unmaking the Soviet Union
#Gorbachev just crapped his pants! #Reagan said "Mr #Gorbochov, Tear Down This Wall"
I wonder if the ultimate result of #Trump will be a dissolution of the US in a similar way to how #Gorbachev led to the break away of Soviet Republics?
Quello che Gorbachev non sapeva
🛑 Il McDonald’s di Mosca e i suoi effetti imprevisti 👇
#storia #history #sovietunion #mcdonalds #gorbachev #moscow
https://boomerissimo.it/2025/02/09/unione-sovietica-il-panino-fatale-crollo-al-primo-morso/
It's notable that #Gorbachev was excited by computers in a way similar to #ai enthusiasts.
He believed computers would be able to replace the human bureaucrats that ran the Soviet economy and do a better job since they could take into account all the economic information at once.
Now, we have Musk believing the same thing is possible in the US with a much smaller scale...
The Guardian view on #arms #control: essential to prevent the total #devastation of #nuclear #war | Editorial https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/27/the-guardian-view-on-arms-control-essential-to-prevent-the-total-devastation-of-nuclear-war
Next November marks 40 years since the #US president Ronald #Reagan and the #Soviet leader Mikhail #Gorbachev declared that “a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought”. The statement was striking – not least because their militaries were pouring billions into preparing for an unwinnable conflict.
#AlexanderKosolapov #АлександрКосолапов Gorbi-Mao; 1991
#art #mastoart #Mao #Gorbachev
⬆️ @paraw >> in #Europe we know quite well that we do what the US say…
Irrefutable proof in #GeorgeWBush steamrolling #UN over #France's objections in 2nd #GulfWar just to avenge his dad #GeorgeHWBush.
@benroyce >> "big guy gets what he wants" or "we follow rules"
In #US, we swing like a pendulum — former is in vogue when #Republicans are in power, latter when #Democrats.
Even #Russia heeded #Reagan's call, "Mr #Gorbachev, tear down this wall" — That was a good thing in a different era.
