Former Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev Dead at 91

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[@theorangeninja6486]

my favorite part of the gorbachev presidency is when he said "it's gorbin' time" and then he totally gorbed all over the ussr

[@kx7500]

Gorbadieze would approve if alive today

[@rikustorm13]

Lmfao

[@MouseTheGoblin]

I love how we as a society will only ever verify the death of a well known being when Wikipedia starts editing their page

[@kx7500]

The only reason we think this is weird is because it's not a big boy for profit news org telling us. Wikipedia is relatively reliable.

[@tj12711]

Wikipedia is far more reliable than any print Encyclopedia ever was. Way more checks, balances, and transparencies in place. Most of the criticism it gets is from people who don't see the irony in blindly trusting something that they read in a book or newspaper with no citations or evidence. It's true that Wikipedia can't be blindly trusted, because nothing can be. You should always engage in skepticism and a commitment to critical analysis. And Wikipedia makes that much easier than most other resources do.

[@ff-qf1th]

@@kx7500 yes, it's unequivocally a good thing for more people to be more trusting of wikipedia than news orgs.

[@centralgermanymapping7903]

literally same wtf

[@Vin_Venture896]

If only Gorbachev hadn’t watched the Vaush vs Yankee Tankie debate, he’d still be alive now… 😢

[@vxicepickxv]

Nah. The hand of Kissinger reached across the world to steal Gorbachev's essence.

[@BlueTyphoon2017]

@@vxicepickxv true

[@lohenriksson9698]

instant aneurysm

[@thatwhichstaresback]

"Shook hands with both Ronald's, Reagan and Mcdonald."-ERB

[@Delicious_Oreoz]

If your name end with "in" time to get "out".

[@jdprettynails]

"Had the balls to let Baryshnikov dance, playa!"

[@hostomelhorsehoarder]

@@jdprettynails Tore down that wall like the kool aid man

[@jdprettynails]

@@hostomelhorsehoarder oh yeah!

[@hostomelhorsehoarder]

@@jdprettynails You two need yoga

[@swampdog7820]

R.I.P. Pizza Hut king. He'll be Gorbin' in heaven.

[@AnalogueDDR5]

It’s Gorbin Time

[@SexPun48]

A beautiful send off

[@matthewworthy4739]

He got to see Pizza Hut enter and leave Russia (They left in July). What a life! RIP

[@lil_weasel219]

Why the fuck are you Simping for someone simping for a capitalist Corporation

[@eelvis1674]

If you told me he was 91 when he took power I would have believed you

[@AR0ACE]

I just wanna say your pfp makes me feel weird

[@benefitsbrian9199]

@@AR0ACE Don't worry you're just learning things about yourself you cannot yet grasp

[@ScarlettR61]

It’s so weird how varied the attitudes around Gorbachev are with Russians. Most of my dad’s family who are all Russian/Ukrainian Jews like him as a liberal reformer and hate Putin, but others are completely different. I think that he could have handled the collapse of the USSR and rebuilding of Russia much better, but overall he was a good guy who wanted the right thing. Rest In Peace.

[@soulsborne7765]

Gorbatšov could have handled it better but after the august cuop attempt the ussrs fate was sealed

[@PinHeadSupliciumwtf]

As a German I will be forever thankful for the reunification. It obviously has its problems but couldn't have happened without him.

[@DmitriPolkovnik]

A lot of Russians see him as responsible for the end of the USSR, but really all of the issues which brought the Union down had been festering for a long time already. The economic rot, the growing nationalism in the Republics and the failure of the Afghanistan War were all systemic issues far out of his control. He tried to democratise the union more and make its economy more dynamic, I think he deserves credit for that.

[@MegaBanne]

Like the Soviet-Afghan war?

[@ScarlettR61]

@SoulsBorn e that’s true. He did what he could with what he was given. It’s just a shame the situation was so broken that he couldn’t do more, but that’s not his fault

[@DmitriPolkovnik]

I think its kind of funny for MLs to be celebrating his death. He tried to introduce market based reforms to save the Soviet economy which was in extremely poor shape. In the end it was that economic failure, nationalism in the Republics and satellite states, Yeltsin and the Stalinist hardliners attemtping the August coup that brought the USSR down. If Gorbachev's reforms had actually been able to go ahead uninterrupted it's likely he would be praised up and down by MLs as a Deng like figure, despite the fact that like Deng he tried to make the economy more capitalistic. The shock therapy privatisation in the 90s was largely the fault of Yeltsin and economists like Gaidar and Chubais. Easier for MLs to blame Gorbachev though, they don't have to do any self-reflection that way.

[@UmQasaann]

If Malenkov was General Secretary he would have liquidate careerists and opportunists out of the government and the Soviet Union would still exist as a planned economy be a 1st world country and surpass the US imperialists economy in 2005. But instead the opportunist Khrushchev and the revisionist successors that hurt the Soviet Union inside more than the Western capitalists ever could!

[@Dave102693]

Exactly

[@ItachiUchiha-bt8yp]

Bold of you to assume that MLs like Deng

[@NotBatman101]

Prayers up to Mr Gorbachev. Taken from us way too soon at the crisp age of 91 😔

[@summanus4437]

My prayers go to the ones murdered under his regime.

[@miguelthealpaca8971]

@@summanus4437 Did he murder anyone?

[@familycomrade6919]

@@summanus4437 u are so brainwashed

[@Lotan_]

@@miguelthealpaca8971 There's a comment under TraxelAxel's comment thread that references a few things. None of them good.

[@GrimmaStadguard]

​@@summanus4437The guy killed less people than avarge US president..

[@ravenhopkins347]

People don’t give him the credit he deserves for actually being the one who ended the Cold War, if it wasn’t for him the Cold War would’ve continued

[@arachnidlupus7625]

The guy was a monster, but go off, slay Daddy Gorbachev, werk queen OwO

[@Dave102693]

@@arachnidlupus7625 the USSR was a monster tbh

[@KryptRaider]

@@arachnidlupus7625 but you agree that him ending the cold war was a good thing right?

[@arachnidlupus7625]

@@Dave102693 It was, Eastern Europe and the Baltic States are STILL affected by it to this day.

[@arachnidlupus7625]

@@carsont4625 I wrote a comment earlier about my personal thoughts in regards to Gorbachev, so I am just gonna paste it here: "Let's see...the crackdown in Kazakhstan (1986), massacre in Georgia (1989), Black January in Azerbaijan (1990) and various other things...mmm yeah, the guy was TOTALLY just a casual dude LMAO I LOVE how the Western world (Cough Americans Cough) just IGNORES the Eastern European/Baltic experience during the Soviet Union."

[@Akron162]

Gorbachev wasnt great, but considering the example of his predecessors and successors, he could have a been loooooot worse. At least he hadnt much of a penchant for randomly killing people. I know, low bar, but still.

[@thechief043]

Just like most historical figures, they're going to be controversial. Even heroes of international leftism aren't perfect. But I agree, he seemed to be attempting to do the right thing, it just events transpired into the worst possible outcome since it led to Putin.

[@Dave102693]

Super low bar

[@modernmyth9050]

Literally the same kind of logic that libs simping for Genocidal George use.

[@justwolfex]

I am not going to celebrate that as a win. That's quite the small silver lining.

[@MegaBanne]

Are you seriously comparing him with Stalin? The great majority of whom survived Stalin's years of terror where against death penalty. I mean even the political elite lost people they loved. There is a reason why they destalinized the USSR after his death. Imagine living 29 years of never ending nightmare. Sure, a lot of people cried at Stalin's funeral. But that is how the human psyche works. The hatred comes out of rationality while the tears comes out of the end of a 29 years parasocial relationship. Imagine the most messed up version of the Stockholm syndrom with an abuser free from redeeming qualities.

[@sleepyhead8681]

Pizza hut please honor this sick man. It would be poetic justice to see pizza hut mourn him like those bass pro shops do when conservitives die.

[@enotsnavdier6867]

Sick man? What did he do that is worthy of being called a sick man?

[@TraxelAxel]

My grandfather was born in the Soviet Union before immigrating in the '60s ( he broke a shitload of laws to do so). He managed to stay in contact with his relatives even though I'm not entirely sure how, but they worshiped the ground Gorbachev walked on. Apparently my great aunt said the quote " comrade Gorbachev will make the Soviet Union great again" to my grandpa. Me and my grandpa have the same consensus: Gorbachev was a great man but a poor leader

[@arachnidlupus7625]

Aww, cute. Brainwashed. But cute.

[@arachnidlupus7625]

Also LMAO "Great man". Gonna paste my comment here: "Let's see...the crackdown in Kazakhstan (1986), massacre in Georgia (1989), Black January in Azerbaijan (1990) and various other things...mmm yeah, the guy was TOTALLY just a casual dude LMAO I LOVE how the Western world (Cough Americans Cough) just IGNORES the Eastern European/Baltic experience during the Soviet Union."

[@driveasandwich6734]

@@arachnidlupus7625 Wow, that sounds like a bunch of stuff that should be more well known and mentioned on his Wikipedia page.

[@coffeecoder8162]

@@arachnidlupus7625 Ignores? Dude, most people know little outside the general history of their country/state. The general layman knowledge of Gorbachev is that aided in the ending the Cold war.

[@arachnidlupus7625]

@@coffeecoder8162 And that needs to change, if you're going to talk about a topic with little to no knowledge (and spread misinformation along the way), don't talk about it. Do intensive research and then formulate an opinion. Think before you speak and read before you think. My comment was a response to America's/The Western World's reaction towards Gorbachev's death, which seemed VERY intellectually dishonest (a la claims of him ending The Cold War, being a hero, not being an awful person in position of power etc.) Therefore yes, it it frustrating to see people speak about things they know NOTHING about.

[@stormyprawn]

Remember glasnost and perestroika. He certainly wasn't perfect, but he was the best the people of the USSR ever got.

[@user-ud5uo8fm4x]

Glasnost was a state led anti communist propaganda campaign and perestroika was economic suicide

[@4thzone697]

Did you live in the USSR through the reformist period? If so, what tangible changes did you see?

[@cyanblue9775]

@@4thzone697 Did you? Just curious, since the question is so pointed

[@4thzone697]

@@cyanblue9775 Nah I’m a peasant of Lizzie.

[@4thzone697]

@@cyanblue9775 and sadly not one of the colonial peasants🥲

[@BambiBreaker]

Rip Pizzachev

[@mav8535]

In Germany we are still grateful because the SU was the single most important factor for unification and he made it happen.

[@arthur3816]

Im very grateful to Gorbachev for the reunification of Germany my grandmother was able to visit the town she grew up in before she escaped the east, partly because of him allowing the ease of relations

[@UmQasaann]

Wish the Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart didn't falll. The GDR doesn't deserve to be annexed by the West German puppet government being run by ex-Nazi fully supported by the US imperialists! 🇨🇺❤🇩🇪 ☭

[@officernealy]

Anyone who puts the death of the Soviet Union squarely on Gorbachev is ignorant at best or disingenuous at worst. The USSR ultimately killed itself through misallocating state funds, years of societal oppression, and colossal PR blunders both abroad and at home. Gorbachev hoped through his Glasnost and Perestroika programs he could save the Union but the damage had already been done and the only sound thing you can really argue is he sped up its inevitable demise.

[@Dave102693]

It was too rotten to the core to be saved.

[@arachnidlupus7625]

Exactly, some people have the NERVE to claim he dismantled the Soviet Union and freed several countries...once again people neglect CONTEXT.

[@anthonycicalese1793]

Look all I am saying is when people try to pin the fall of the USSR. There's a reason why the nanosecond Soviet states saw a chance of leaving the USSR they took it, shit was just too rotten.

[@Dave102693]

@@anthonycicalese1793 exactly. It was beyond saving. It shouldn’t even exist in the first place. It should of just been socialists Russia, and left the other countries alone.

[@kx7500]

Calling the soviet union a union is weird

[@Julian-jd5yj]

That Pizza hut commercial is extremely dystopian

[@Empyre18]

Lol, right when Vaush said the “Pizza Hut funeral” part, a KZbin ad for Domino’s popped up for me. There’s symbolism there, but damfino what it means.

[@dominicvioli7098]

Gorbachev was portrayed in a really good light in the show Chernobyl. Although obviously not historically perfect the show has been acclaimed for his accurate portrayal of events.

[@_extrathicc]

As much as I hated Gorvachev, he was still better than the fascists of Yeltsin and Putin.

[@Dave102693]

Yeltsin poured more gasoline on the fire of the dying corps.

[@BlueTyphoon2017]

@@Dave102693 true, he made it MUCH worse, holy shit.

[@downylithe]

Anarcho-Gorboism?

[@danielshepard1449]

Gorbachev is one of the most unpopular Russian leaders of all time, right up there with Yeltsin. Gorbachev and Yeltsin were only popular in the west, because they pretty much gave the west everything they wanted.

[@downylithe]

@@danielshepard1449 Being unpopular doesn't always coincide with being a poor leader. It often does, sure, but there's exceptions - especially in a radical change of ideology

[@polandman4913]

So long Gorby, probably the only Soviet leader I actually liked.

[@akorn9943]

What about Tim Curry’s character in Red Alert 3

[@arachnidlupus7625]

"I actually liked"-At least you're brave enough to admit your red flags

[@adamsmasher9769]

@@akorn9943 lol "SPAaAAaCe!"

[@stevenhiggins2544]

@@akorn9943 This is an underrated as fuck comment. Holy shit.

[@Dionysus_09]

@@stevenhiggins2544 The CnC series went downhill after Red Alert 2/Yuri's Revenge. RA3 and CnC3 weren't worth playing as much IMHO.

[@sharkiboi8167]

Rest in Pizza

[@Ar1AnX1x]

as far as I understand this guy was the best Soviet Leader or at least the least brutal one

[@alexh2947]

Not a high bar, but he probably did the most good for the world out of the soviet leaders.

[@Dave102693]

@@alexh2947 and he was punished for it

[@MegaBanne]

He was pretty horrible.

[@ukyoize]

There was some real sus shit with shops having no food and then it being found out being dumped outside, but who knows, there never was any proofs.

[@danielshepard1449]

The reason you remember him that way is because he basically sold out Russian to western economic interests, so western history books remember him very fondly.

[@MM-vs2et]

RIP Gorbie, dude was a G, not The G, but he was, in fact, a G.

[@Mox1990]

The pizza hut ad brings out the tankie in me lol. They have the balls to discuss actual problems the post ussr states experienced, countered them with "muh freedum" then side lined it all for shitty pizza. Pretty sure they couldn't film the ad in russia cuz they'd get lynched.

[@yamiyomizuki]

I know essentially nothing about Gorbachev a head of state, aside from the standard high school history stuff. I do know about him as the advocate for nuclear de proliferation and general anti war advocate he became afterwards from the time I actually sawed him speak in person, and that was certainly something to remember.

[@danielshepard1449]

The reason you remember him that way is because he basically sold out Russian to western economic interests, so western history books remember him very fondly.

[@yamiyomizuki]

@@danielshepard1449 can you not read? I don't really know what history books remember, I remember the advocacy he engaged in later from seeing him in person. I get that you have some anti western brain rot and are also probably an actual tanky but at least respond somewhat to what I actually said.

[@JD-jl4yy]

He died after seeing the Yankee Tankie debate.

[@Oliverius1702]

May THE MAN rest in peace.

[@afroponix3414]

Now I’m in the mood for Pizza Hut

[@thesocialistroman]

I was thinking Little Caesars lol

[@axtondragunov1784]

Gorbachev was the best soviet leader I believe that he genuinely tried to do his best to help the soviet people and not be a dictator like his predecessors or successors

[@PropheticShadeZ]

i see it like a cop trying to do community policing, right idea wrong framework and system

[@saifag6685]

@@PropheticShadeZ he tried to transfer the Soviet Union into a democratic socialist.

[@danielshepard1449]

Gorbachev is one of the most unpopular Russian leaders of all time, right up there with Yeltsin. Gorbachev and Yeltsin were only popular in the west, because they pretty much gave the west everything they wanted.

[@masaheimoi]

@@danielshepard1449 Who do you think was beater leader than Gorb? Stalin was Stalin, Khrushchev brought world closest to nuclear end with his brinkmanship and Brezhnev started a war in Afghanistan and all of them sent tanks to crush any ideas of leaving USSR influence.

[@danielshepard1449]

@@masaheimoi Depends what you mean by "better" if you think the US dominating Eastern Europe and absorbing them into their military/economic system is good, then Gorbachev/Yeltsin are the best. If you are talking about who most improved living conditions of Russians and was most popular, then it's probably Stalin or Lenin.

[@James--Parker]

"When is it Kissinger's turn" Never. He is immortal like the queen of England.

[@Sugarman96]

He feeds off the souls of innocent Cambodians, that's how he lives forever.

[@DGAMINGDE]

We have lost many great politicians. Actually only Gorbachev and a guy named Geraldo Melo. But as Geraldo had a good campaign song I wanted to namedrop him.

[@niluscvp]

The biggest thing he did succeed at was preventing war. A large conflict preceding their collaspe would have been much more destructive. And the chances of that happening woulve been much more likely if the Soviets had leader that wanted to use their military to actively influence and control their republics and warsaw pact countries.

[@MrGksarathy]

Gorbachev desperately wanted to salvage what he could of the Soviet Union and make it a better place to live, and I can't fault him for trying.

[@MegaBanne]

He kept the war, that killed 2 million civilians, going for 4 more years.

[@MrGksarathy]

@@MegaBanne Not saying he was perfect. Better than any other Soviet premier though.

[@craigstephenson7676]

He almost made it a better place to live, until shock therapy

[@BlueTyphoon2017]

@@craigstephenson7676 holy shit the shock therapy, oh god, that shit FUCKED Russia, and defended it into the right wing nationalistic party of today.

[@mtk77621]

@@derrindouglas1936 Democracy as a concept is about letting the people have the power to decide how their country is run. "Forcing democracy on someone" seems like a pretty oxymoronic idea. America overthrowing foreign governments is not fucking democracy

[@infinitesyoutube8830]

Wow I'm just hearing about this, certainly going to be an interesting video.

[@taMeska]

wikipedia editors waiting for people to die so they can update “is” to “was” in their article

[@chucku00]

Vaush just had his "Borger King" moment with "Borscht"...

[@JurasJankauskas]

Gorbachev wasn't a liberal. He was a hardline communist, who thought the only way to uphold and save the USSR was to make it more liberal, but still communist. The only reason we think of him as a liberal, is because the fall happened and the liberal position was all he had at that point. If he somehow succeded in his plan to save the Union, we'd think of him more as a new kind of communist reformer, like dengism.

[@lx4079]

Dengism wasn't communist either lmao

[@danielshepard1449]

He was a communist who mass privatized Russian state assets to be sold to rich oligarchs? There was nothing communist about Gorbachev's economic reforms.

[@thomasallister3446]

That's not really true, he may have been a communist at some point in his life but it was definitely clear he was no communist after the fall of the USSR, and may not have been when he was the leader of it

[@supershinigami1]

Bro, he did an ad for the ÖBB in the year 2000. That's the railway system in my country. I never heard of this. Admittedly, I was 5 years old back then but I still wonder how I never heard anything about it later.

[@TheFallfish]

He's in the great pizzahut in the sky now

[@Konfuciusify]

Anna Politkovskaya once wrote that it was ironic that the communist party became the last bastion of democracy in the Russian Federation when talking about the remnants of Gorbachev's legacy.

[@mememachine6022]

Gorby was a good man. He said the best thing you could have in life was loving someone and being loved

[@thejunglevip1070]

the only man to out pizza the hut

[@taliakelly4803]

That's so crazy he lived this long

[@AngryShooter]

I never seen so many people surprised to hear that a 91 year old is dead.

[@johail3510]

Crazy, didn't know he was alive

[@supbrotv]

I had my first real Mandela effect just now. I thought he died a few weeks ago.

[@evanc8057]

"He just died? Wow. I didn't know that... He led an amazing life. What else can you say? He was an amazing person, whether you agree or not. He was an amazing person who led an amazing life. I'm actually sad to hear that."

[@arugala50]

*queue Elton John music*

[@brian8152]

Gikhail Morbachev

[@snarkylive]

the new Gorbius film isn't going to be the same without him as the lead

[@alretermerfaldor9927]

That's not even within the STRATOSPHERE of the wildest advert Pizza Hut has ever done >w>

[@haydn6174]

Gorbachev probably came the closest to communisom in the USSR despite the KGBs efforts the small businesses he allowed were on the condition of worker ownership and industrial workers were able to elect there managers under his govenment, he also kept price controls as mentioned in the video, I would probably call him a socdem or at most a market socialist, lots of the free trade Pepsi McDonald's shit was really just diplomacy to show the west he was willing to cooperate, the Pepsi deal for instance involved the USSR trading militery equipment. He was clearly left wing even offering to fund the British miners strike before Margaret Thatcher threatened to restart the cold war if he continued, so overall he was pretty based

[@danielshepard1449]

No, unless by "communism" you just mean capitalist markets. Soviet parliament granted Gorbachev emergency privatization powers ,that allowed him transform state enterprises into joint-stock companies with shares offered on stock exchanges. This resulted in reduced production, shortages and social discontent, which led to strikes...what about this is communist? The only place Gorbachev is popular is in the west, he's one of the least popular Russian leaders in history.

[@UmQasaann]

If Malenkov was General Secretary he would have liquidate careerists and opportunists out of the government and the Soviet Union would still exist as a planned economy be a 1st world country and surpass the US imperialists economy in 2005. But instead the opportunist Khrushchev and the revisionist successors that hurt the Soviet Union inside more than the Western capitalists ever could!

[@darth0tator]

Sadly we also los Ströbele this week

[@MarkSoupial]

Honestly, giving someone Pizza Hutt should be a capital offense

[@dimthecat9418]

Does anyone know why everyone in that Russian Pizza Hit commercial looks like they’re from the 1940s? Like all the clothes and the hair styles look just like they’re from vintage Hollywood

[@MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot]

Gorby finally learned you can't out Pizza the Hut when they pulled out during the war.

[@yunix2396]

Dead, but not forgotten. Thanks for the Pizza Hut 🍕

[@gabeisawesome879]

The ultimate enemy that would eventually become the downfall of the Soviet Union.... Pizza hut.

[@ME0_]

i feel like a little research segment about him would have been cool i mean imo he was quite the interesting political figure but i guess it wasn’t really fitting for the stream idk

[@dolphinofthedeep4292]

Can’t wait for him to cover the Russian oligarch that just “accidentally“ fell out of his hospital window

[@zackwithathey165]

He knew his death was official when Wikipedia said "was"

[@XxW4RB0RNxX]

I'm dying laughing, thinking about an alternate universe where Bill Clinton is in a commercial for communist borshed

[@plsdonttttt]

the ad is genius lol

[@snowcrabby5544]

Love him or hate him you gotta admit that Pizza Hut commercial was pretty awesome

[@mrg0th1er83]

That ad was pretty good tbh.

[@treeztop]

Gorbechav > Reagan

[@UmQasaann]

Stalin> Gorbachev and Reagan

[@dripster4424]

@@UmQasaann I hate Stalin

[@UmQasaann]

@@dripster4424 Long live Comrade Joseph Stalin for combating revisionism and opportunists for promoting Marxist-Leninism internationally through the comlnterm. Industrializing a semi-fudel back water into a space faring superpower, command of the Red Armh to liberated the the concentration camps and defeat the Nazi hoards!

[@treeztop]

@@dripster4424 you’re no comrade

[@dripster4424]

@@treeztop Lenin hates Stalin

[@brandonjones8575]

I can't believe Gorby outlived Wade Boggs.

[@jaymorgan7728]

He was great in Spitting Image.

[@thejacobcomeauprogram8779]

It would of be great to see him in a photo handshake 🤝 with Vaush . I love would to “tankie” Twitter reaction to that

[@BlueTyphoon2017]

Oh god please don’t, gorb wasn’t entirely at fault for the USSRs collapse but he wasn’t exactly good.

[@dubspool]

I’m glad to see the Pizza Hut ad wasn’t a fever dream.

[@tranquility6789]

I feel bad for him. I don't know much about his policies, just that he ended the soviet union, but he shouldn't have died during such a horrible time in Russian history. 😔

[@danielshepard1449]

He basically lost the cold war and sold the country out to western business interests. Things were much worse for Russians during the 90's than today, Gorbachev laid the foundation for the economic reforms that lead to hyperinflation and economic devastation of Russia.

[@lil_weasel219]

@@danielshepard1449 You have been posting this historical revisionism under every comment. The culprit for the indiscriminate rampant privatisation in russia was yeltsin

[@danielshepard1449]

@@lil_weasel219 It was both. The Soviet parliament granted Gorbachev emergency privatization powers, including the authority to transform state enterprises into joint-stock companies with shares offered on stock exchanges.

[@KidnamedJOOoohNnHeEEEey]

1:14 “WAS.”

[@namelastnamefirst4520]

Rip Gorbachev

[@justanothergamer7918]

RIP comrade. I cant believe Gorb from Hollow Knight died.

[@yunobeat]

The thing im glad he did… is he made it possible for my home country to not be split in two in absolute agony anymore…

[@pixelgoat7317]

But...but who is Zangief gonna do a Cossack dance with when you beat Street Fighter 2 with him?

[@iii2594]

he was also in a louis vuitton ad lol 😂

[@finghinmccarthy5021]

The old guy in the pizza hut ad was right

[@asahurst6371]

That pizza commercial is amazing lol

[@DrHotWarLove]

This state funeral brought to you by Pizza Hut. What would Bill Clinton even eat in that alternative universe advertisement? Potatoes?

[@hi__im_zack4890]

Damn, didn't know he was still alive.

[@robdotgif]

F in the chat for the pizza hut commercial man o7

[@thomas913]

Rip

[@citizenVader]

You can attribute perestroika and glasnost to his political achievements

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

The end of an era, the embers of the Soviet union dying has been extinguished May the Soviet Phoenix be eternal

[@spacecase8888]

I can't find an article about it right now, but I'm pretty sure I remember that Jimmy Carter said that when he was elected president that he was taken to a movie theater underneath the white house with a bunch of generals and stuff and he was shown a movie basically explaining to him the state of US foreign affairs, especially when it came to the USSR, and he was told that the USSR had already agreed to end communism but they were behind schedule. So, Gorbechev may have been the one to follow through with ending the USSR, but it would seem the plan to do so had already been in place.

[@hoopsonwheels]

Pizza Hut Russia just lost their spokesman

[@lolsaidthescorpionlmao]

So this is the pervert guy from the saga of Tanya the evil..

[@zephyr8072]

If all thr people making Morbius jokes would hurry up and join Gorbachev that’d be great.

[@rikustorm13]

Gorbachev died? Holy crap

[@jeddgangman4502]

Vaush sad at dear leader dying

[@darkphoenix2]

I watched The Americans and that's how I know Gorbachev was okay

[@an_guitarist]

Gorbachev made the Soviet Union what Russia is today, we shall honor him for taking down the USSR.

[@francisxavier8374]

the one true Top G

[@craigstephenson7676]

GORBY NOOO

[@arachnidlupus7625]

Let's see...the crackdown in Kazakhstan (1986), massacre in Georgia (1989), Black January in Azerbaijan (1990) and various other things...mmm yeah, the guy was TOTALLY just a casual dude LMAO I LOVE how the Western world (Cough *Americans* Cough) just IGNORES the Eastern European/Baltic experience during the Soviet Union.

[@Chris47368]

Yeah - valid point...

[@schmittian1313]

The reason why Americans and Westerners ignore EE and the Baltics is because those countries are overall irrelevant on the world stage.

[@arachnidlupus7625]

@@Chris47368 Really aggravates me...

[@Dave102693]

Yeah, the USSR was basically Tsarist Russia with fake socialist characteristics.

[@arachnidlupus7625]

@@schmittian1313 I am fully aware of that, and that needs to change lmao

[@ukanlosgod7250]

Ba, and I can't stress this enough, babooey.

[@emilchan5379]

While Gorbachev wasn't perfect, he was the best the world could have hoped for from the USSR at that time. Kinda feel sorry for him, seeing Russia's invasion of Ukraine and his country slide back into fascism, undoing decades of his life's work, must have been a really horrible experience in the few months before he died.