• ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlOP
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      Children had to prostitute themselves for food because of that man. Nice person my fucking ass. I wish hell was real. His disposition was more pleasant than Trump but the choices he made were often just as devastating.

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        I’m sure Gorbachev was far from perfect, but nobody foresaw how bad the collapse of the Soviet Union would have been, or that it would have collapsed at all. The “shock therapy” that happened post-Soviet Union was long after he’s gone.