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Mikhail Gorbachev Creates New Party: anti-corruption movement for Russia
mypacis.eu — Gorbachev founds new movement. Mikhail Gorbachev has founded a new political movement vowing to fight for reforms in Russia. Today the leader of the former Soviet Union was elected head of a new political movement (the Union of Social Democrats) founded, he said, to help bring democratic principles to Russia.
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- potp, on 10/22/2007, -2/+9ironical, isn't it. Leader of the "Evil Empire" now has to save the "Democracy" of Russia.
- electionukraine, on 10/22/2007, -0/+6Yes, history makes some strange bedfellows. Still, he is the one who initiated Perestroika and renewal.
- quomen, on 10/21/2007, -1/+1Dugg for ironical.
/sarcasmal - BabyWookie, on 10/22/2007, -0/+1Well, he is the one who opened and liberalized the USSR and brought down the Iron Curtain. At the time, he was one of the most beloved and respected people in the world, even though he eventually became extremely unpopular in the USSR itself, due to the economic hardships that manifested themselves under his rule.
- masterm1nd, on 10/21/2007, -2/+1... grab a snickers.
- XXXXXXXXXXXXXX, on 10/22/2007, -4/+0I still don't know why Boris Yeltsin replaced him as the Soviet premier.
- theblooms, on 10/22/2007, -2/+1Maybe Because Yeltsin was fighting against the communist totalitarian dictatorship that Gorbachev was the leader of? Hello?
You are obviously too young to remember the Cold War, and you teachers are obviously doing an incredibly ***** job of teaching 20th century history and the evil that communism is.- BabyWookie, on 10/22/2007, -0/+1Neither of you know WTF you're talking about. No one had replaced Gorbachev. Also, a few years after Gorbachev became the General Secretary, the USSR was no longer a "totalitarian dictatorship", thanks to Gorbachev himself. Then again, one could argue that the USSR wasn't a "totalitarian dictatorship" ever since Stalin's death. It was an authoritarian state though.
- theblooms, on 10/22/2007, -2/+1Maybe Because Yeltsin was fighting against the communist totalitarian dictatorship that Gorbachev was the leader of? Hello?
- hiphoc, on 10/23/2007, -0/+1Wow, this has the possibility of being the most corrupt party ever.
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