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I need #liberals to understand something about #MikhailGorbachev policies in the #SovietUnion & what he actually did.

You know that "Fairness Doctrine" you like to talk about so much? Well #Gorbachev essentially did the same thing #Reagan did in the #US, he allowed #farright propaganda to penetrate the #USSR airwaves.

#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #Trump #JDVance #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #USA #Musk #Fascism

#OnThisDay in 1987, US President #RonaldReagan and Soviet leader #MikhailGorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles.

#OnThisDay in 2014, #MikhailGorbachev warns that tensions between America and Russia over Ukraine have put the world on the brink of a new Cold War.

#OnThisDay in 1990, Soviet President #MikhailGorbachev wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

#OnThisDay in 2022, #MikhailGorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1985-91), died after an unspecified long and grave illness at 91. 𓆩♡𓆪
#RIP

#OnThisDay in 1991, Conservative members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union attempt to depose #MikhailGorbachev in a coup d'état.

Listening to audiobook THE FUTURE IS HISTORY: HOW TOTALITARIANISM RECLAIMED RUSSIA (2017), by Masha Gessen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masha_Gessen

#MashaGessen #Russia #Book #Audiobook #Libby #Library #PublicLibrary #BorisYeltsin #Soviet #USSR #MikhailGorbachev #Putin #VladimirPutin

A discussion with: Mikhail Gorbachev
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-RjCxq8z48

#MikhailGorbachev Date of birth
March 2, 1931 #pisces

“President #Biden could very well go down in history as the last American president born during #WWII & shaped by a view of #AmericanPower nurtured in the #ColdWar. No other leader on the world stage today can boast that they sat in the Israeli PM’s office 50yrs ago w/ #GoldaMeir, or discussed dismantling #Soviet nuclear weapons w/ #MikhailGorbachev.