Who was former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev? | Al Jazeera Newsfeed

Celebrated in the West for ending the Cold War and often criticised in Russia for letting the Soviet Union collapse, here’s a look at the life of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who has died aged 91.


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[stripemcr]

He ended the Cold War and now we have a Frozen War as the relationships between Russia and the West are probably even worse than during Soviet era ...

[worldcurrencycollectionand]

Greatest leader of USSR 🇷🇺. Rip Mikhail Gorbachev 😢 .

[relaxationstation]

Thank You For Having The Totally Unparalleled Courage To Save All Of Our Lives Mr. Gorbachev!

The Modern World has in fact, unknowingly, suffered an extremely enormous loss!

Mikhail Gorbachev was an extremely corageous man, he flatout put his life on the line, against the Soviet Hardliners who wanted to neutralize him, to bring down the Berlin Wall, Dissolve The Soviet Union and most importantly to Totally Reverse Extremely Deadly Nuclear Proliferation!

Modern Russians might not appreciate Mr Gorbachev so much but, as a global populace Mikhail Gorbachev represents the 2nd time that Russia had the courage to save the world from a deadly militant threat, First in the form of hyper-miltant global Nazism and Second in the form of exponentially more deadly Nuclear Proliferation!

Mr. Gorbachev was a real public servant of the like that absolutely does not exist today in a world where we have Political Self-servants who don't give a single millisecond of thought to public service.

Mr. Gorbachev didn't just wake up one day and decide to dissolve The Soviet Union, he toured as much of the huge Soviet Union as he could to get the people's opinion about what kind of country, world, and block they wanted to live in and the overwhelming feedback that he got back from the Soviet People, whom still remebered the untold horrors of World War 2, was that They Absolutely Did Not Want Another World War so, Mr. Gorbechov decided to do the unthinkable and dissolve a primary part of the nuclear threat and thereby largely precipitated the nuclear threat's collapse.

Today, there aren't totally inconceivably hardcore, totally dedicated politicians who have the courage to do this!

Black people don't believe in fear because being afraid is far too dangerous but at a time when global superpowers possessed enough weapons to kill every man, woman and child on Earth 1, 000 times over again Mikhail Gorbachev bought modern civilization some time and took a great amount of fear out of ordinary people's lives and for that, "We should all be eternally thankful to Mikhail "Gorby" Gorbachev!"

[aloh]

Who was he....

He was the person responsible for bringing peace and reuniting Europe....

Genuinely one of the few people in power that did something positive. That effected the life's of over a billion people.

Thank you. From a random person in the UK 😊

[saidbendif]

Seriously, he messed it up in USSR and destroyed his own country with hasty reforms but he is curiously remembered positively probably for the same reason by his Western former enemies... He is also the same man who launched the campaign of extermination against the Afghan nation when he took over the Afghan-Soviet war... As many "great leaders" he lived a long quiet life without being troubled by any indictment of his crimes in Soviet Union or in Afghanistan...
The consequences of his years in power are still ringing now and his legacy remains to be assessed in a more objective way than the quasi hagiography portrayed by the medias

[sebastianwrites]

This assessment is absolutely not fair William Taubman... shame on him!

And Aljazeera the issues you level at Gorbachev, how is he responsible for the fall of world oil prices at the time? He did not get enough help from the West and allies 'we' are more to blame than Gorbachev in many respects... he did what he could, but there was a period of transition to a capitalist economy.

The West should have intervened more to make that smoother, and it was that lack of response and help for the people of Russia at the 'right time' which indirectly lead to Putin's rule.

[azherbaig]

As a muslim I should be merciful and forgiving but no not in this scenario!! Not for him!

[captain]

He's part of the course of today's conflict. He failed to unite the Soviets.

[Vellonary]

He was a criminal that took achievements as his own doing.

[jarrodyuki]

japan will retake the kurils sakhalin and vladivostok south korea will take north korea.