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[–] ChilledPeppers@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Wasn't Gorbachev the chillest of all Russian rulers? For some reason that is his image in my head.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wasn’t Gorbachev the chillest of all Russian rulers?

He was the most friendliest, from a Western point of view.
But he was also the last, meaning that he presided over the time when the Soviet Union was collapsing.

[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

He was the most friendliest, from a Western point of view.

Yeah, but not the most obedient. That's why the west preferred Yeltsin - and his faithful number two, Putin.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I would guess Yeltsin for most chill. But either way I’m thinking by gorbachev’s time bread lines were still pretty bad.

[–] wieson@feddit.org 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well Yeltsin had tanks shoot at the parliament building

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

yeah but he was breezy about it