Gorbachev

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Thousands of Russians bid farewell to last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev 'the peacemaker'

“He wanted to give us democracy and freedom and we turned out to not be very ready yet,” said Alexander Lebedev, a tycoon and close friend who once bankrolled an opposition-leaning newspaper with Gorbachev.

“That’s most unfortunate but we will still be a European country. This part of history will be over one day.”

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But there is another way of looking at Gorbachev, who ruled the Soviet Union from 1985 until its dissolution in 1991. He was a careerist communist who wormed his way to the top of the bureaucratic heap in Moscow by brown-nosing.

Of course, the Times has a long history of whitewashing reds. Back in 1932, its Moscow correspondent, Walter Duranty, was both a communist sympathizer and a man on the take. In that year he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his “journalism.” In fact, it soon enough became clear that Duranty was covering for Josef Stalin and the Soviets; most notoriously, he was hiding the truth about the deliberate mass starvation of Ukraine, which took millions of lives. 

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/08/30/pinkerton-new-york-times-continues-its-long-history-of-covering-for-commies-with-gorbachev-obit/