What the fuck was his problem?
He was no Deng Xiaoping.
>>1765652
He really, really wanted some Pizza Hut.
>>1765692
дa!
>>1765652
The temptations of Pizza Hut were too seductive
https://youtu.be/fgm14D1jHUw
>>1765652
He knew the USSR was going to collapse and he tried to make the transition as peaceful as possible.
>>1765780
Did it work?
>>1765800
For the most part. The dissolution was kind of a shitshow for a couple of years but it could've been far worse. He did well to mitigate.
>>1765800
judging by the last "transition", yes, relatively
>>1765652
He, like Bill Clinton. Was a disaster.
>>1765652
>What the fuck was his problem?
Just look at that birthmark and you'll know
>>1765652
Bringing a gov that was infiltrated and controlled by the "communist revolution" to a end. Clean out your own gov. See what happens.
>>1765652
Girlfriend is a historian and did Russian studies.
She said he had good intentions, but was just beyond incompetent in literally everything he did.
She also said she wished she knew of that Pizza Hut commercial to show her professor of Russian studies.
>>1765780
Nobody knew the USSR was going to collapse. In reality, the USSR could have easily survived. The reason the USSR collapsed was directly because of Gorbachev's incompetence.
I am just glad the whole thing died so the Balts got to go free from Russian oppression.
>>1765652
He fell for the freedom meme
>>1767184
for now
>>1765708
>pitstsa hat
>>1768362
"Picca chat", Russians don't have "h"
>>1765652
In finnish we have a joke that he had an "outo päähänpinttymä", meaning that he had an odd obsession (of keeping the soviet union intact), but literally it means that he had "a weird head-stain" :DDD
but srsly, gorba was good with finland
>>1767817
Why did everyone fall for the "fell for the ___ meme" meme?
Dude is just an idiot,
>>1768810
thanks to based kekkonen
MR.GORBACHEV
>>1768997
He is genius comparing to picrelated.
>>1768810
>a weird head-stain
Kek, based Funland at it again :D
>>1769059
>le corn enthusiast face
>>1769047
>So I told Gorbachev to tear down this wall and he actually did it the absolute madman hahahaha
>>1766305
Bill Clinton was great, you faggot cuck
>>1765780
Nah