Gorbachev died

[Velar Fricative]

www.reuters.com/world/mikhail-gorbachev-who-ended-cold-war-dies-aged-92-agencies-2022-08-30/

Yes, I thought he had died a while back too.

[gretchenindisguise]

Aug 30, 2022 15:59:42 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

Yes, I thought he had died a while back too.

Man, how did your read our minds so clearly. 

[livinitup]

I was interested in how his legacy would be written. It seems mixed. To me, that mixed feelings for his legacy seems odd in that unleashing democracy for his own county and independence for so many other seems … tarnished.

I learn every day, to my amazement, that folks don’t really love democracy as much as a billionaire fascist pretending to be ‘on their side’.

[rubytue]

I started reading the WPs article right before I left the office. It was really long and I ended up leaving late 😂

But really, reading it brought so many thoughts up. The existential dread of the Cold War. The fascination I had with Russia back then (I did a summer governors school focused on Russia in 1990). Memories of the Cold War falling. On top of that, I’m 2/3 of the way through a rewatch of The Americans.

[shauni27]

Aug 30, 2022 16:05:26 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

Aug 30, 2022 15:59:42 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

Yes, I thought he had died a while back too.

Man, how did your read our minds so clearly. 

came in to post this but glad to see it was already covered, lol.

[georgeglass]

Aug 30, 2022 18:36:01 GMT -5 rubytue said:

I started reading the WPs article right before I left the office. It was really long and I ended up leaving late 😂

But really, reading it brought so many thoughts up. The existential dread of the Cold War. The fascination I had with Russia back then (I did a summer governors school focused on Russia in 1990). Memories of the Cold War falling. On top of that, I’m 2/3 of the way through a rewatch of The Americans.

Um...was that summer governors school at JMU?

[rubytue]

Aug 31, 2022 10:58:53 GMT -5 georgeglass said:

Aug 30, 2022 18:36:01 GMT -5 rubytue said:

I started reading the WPs article right before I left the office. It was really long and I ended up leaving late 😂

But really, reading it brought so many thoughts up. The existential dread of the Cold War. The fascination I had with Russia back then (I did a summer governors school focused on Russia in 1990). Memories of the Cold War falling. On top of that, I’m 2/3 of the way through a rewatch of The Americans.

Um...was that summer governors school at JMU?

Nope. Memphis state. 😁

[klingklang77]

Aug 31, 2022 10:48:33 GMT -5 shauni27 said:

Aug 30, 2022 16:05:26 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

Man, how did your read our minds so clearly. 

came in to post this but glad to see it was already covered, lol.

This. To me he died when Honecker died. And when Reagan died. I don’t know why I think that. Funny how history can play “games” sometimes. 

[basilosaurus]

Aug 30, 2022 16:05:26 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

Aug 30, 2022 15:59:42 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

Yes, I thought he had died a while back too.

Man, how did your read our minds so clearly. 

I feel like I knew, and was surprised, that he was alive only because of a fairly recent headline about his illness deteriorating pretty severely. Like, only a month or two ago.