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Old 08-30-2022, 02:42 PM   #1
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Mikhail Gorbachev has passed. RIP

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2022/0...ail-gorbachev/
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Old 08-30-2022, 02:44 PM   #2
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Amazing hockey career
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He was still alive??
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Old 08-30-2022, 02:48 PM   #4
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What team did he play for again? I forget
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Amazing hockey career

Scored that big goal on Georges Vezina in the '72 Series.

In seriousness, though, my childhood nightmares of nuclear war disappeared under Gorbachev's leadership.
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Old 08-30-2022, 02:50 PM   #6
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I can’t be the only one who thought Mikhail Grabovski simply because they thought Gorbachev had died years ago?
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Old 08-30-2022, 02:55 PM   #7
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I can’t be the only one who thought Mikhail Grabovski simply because they thought Gorbachev had died years ago?
I just naturally assumed he'd been dead for years.
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Old 08-30-2022, 02:58 PM   #8
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I just naturally assumed he'd been dead for years.
That's what they want you to think!
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I find it extremely distressing that Gorbachev finally shuffles off this mortal coil when we're right at the highest inflexion point between nuclear powers since he tamped it all down 30 years ago. RIP to a deserving recipient of the Noble Peace Prize.
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And this belongs on the FOI board exactly why?
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Purely from a hockey standpoint, I tip my hat to him as the man who first allowed Russian players to come to the NHL.
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And this belongs on the FOI board exactly why?
Because of what Jay said.

That, or I’m blind without my glasses. Thanks to whoever moved it, I was wondering why people were talking about his hockey career.
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What team did he play for again? I forget

The Soviet Unions

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What's interesting about Gorbachev is he had zero intentions of actually causing the Soviet collapse as it happened and wanted the USSR to live on as a reformed entity even as it was falling apart, yet seen as largely responsible for the end of the cold war. He ruled over disasters like Chernobyl for example.

What is important is how he didn't use the Soviet army to intervene as Eastern Bloc countries and SSRs broke out and became independent and also acted towards the common good for humanity versus further escalating the cold war. He also implemented reforms within the USSR that eventually inadvertently facilitated it's collapse.

He's one of the most influential men in history and while he's remembered for causing the dissolution of the USSR, he was someone who wanted to reform through peace.
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Anyone else see him speak at the UofC back in 2000 or so?

Glad I have that memory, but wish I'd been knowledgeable and mature enough to properly appreciate his role in history at the time.
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I remember when Frank Drebin rubbed off that birthmark on his head.
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Wow, that's awesome. Wish there had been a full Nardwar interview with him.
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I shook his hand when he was at the U of C back in the 90s.
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I remember when Frank Drebin rubbed off that birthmark on his head.
As I was scrolling thru this discussion this popped into my head just as I got to this comment.

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