And a few quotes from Russian Telegram channels on the death of Gorbachov:
Boris Rozhin:
A fruitful year.
May 3, 2022 - Shushkevich died
May 10, 2022 - Kravchuk died
June 19, 2022 - Burbulis died
July 31, 2022 - Bakatin died
August 30, 2022 - Gorbachev died.
The year 2022 is not over yet...
https://t.me/boris_rozhin/61869
Andrey Medvedev:
Since the beginning of the SMO, Mikhail Gorbachev is already the fourth deceased politician directly involved in the collapse of the USSR.
Shushkevich, Kravchuk, Burbulis and now Gorbachev. Three of them signed the Belovezhsk Agreements, which became the unconditional foundation of what is happening in Ukraine today.
And the fourth led the country to this fatal line of Belovezhskaya Pushcha.
This, of course, is all some kind of, maybe mystical coincidence.
https://t.me/MedvedevVesti/11073
Oleg Tsaryov:
Gorbachev died
They say that it's acceptable to tell either good or nothing about the dead. But in fact, the phrase does not sound like that.
"It is either good about the dead, or nothing but the truth," is the saying of the ancient Greek politician and poet Chilon of Sparta (VI century BC).
During one of the broadcasts, the presenter asked my opinion on the topic of drone delivery. I replied: apparently, it is not acceptable to use obscene expressions? He answered sadly: yes, you can't. I replied that then I'd better keep silent.
Same here. The truth can and should be told, but there are so many emotions, so many words that I'd rather be silent. I can only say that Gorbachev became a symbol of our defeat and all the troubles that came to us after perestroika.
https://t.me/olegtsarov/3317
Sergey Mardan:
Gorbachev was a man out of proportion to his time.
The XX century was the century of political titans, great heroes, great villains, world wars and world revolutions.
Even Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, insignificant in comparison with Stalin, understood the scale of time and the role that this time had prepared for him. And he dragged this exorbitant load with all his might, leaving behind Gagarin, the Caribbean crisis and cornfields beyond the Arctic Circle.
And Mikhail Sergeyevich was a small and insignificant man. He was uncomfortable and scared on the throne of the great empire. And he dropped it as soon as the first opportunity presented itself.
Gorbachev was an insignificant man not only by historical standards, but even just by human standards. He was a man "without honor" in the sense that this ethical formula was formulated by Christian civilization.
Everyone faces a situation in life when they have to choose between what "you should" and "you want". Gorbachev was deeply alien to the concept of honor of the XX century model. He always chose the latter.
Gorbachev, who did not correspond to his time as much as it was possible, surprisingly turned out to be the forerunner of the new XXI century. Century, which asserts that a person "owes" first of all to himself; then to his family (which is also no longer relevant) and even to his relatives (even more controversial). Such concepts as Homeland, state, people, history, God are declared toxic chimeras, the lot of insane marginals prone to violence.
And the fact that Gorbachev died unrepentant is a sign of this small and insignificant XXI century. Where there is no repentance, there is no God.
So, he died and that's it. At the wake, Pizza Hut's pizza could be served instead of kutia, but, it say, they left Russia.
https://t.me/mardanaka/10406
Armen Gasparyan:
Gorbachev died for a lot of people back in 1991. His endless verbiage led to the destruction of a great country. Freedom, which everyone dreamed of then, turned out to have an evil, disgusting face. Everyone wanted a change from the Suslov-Epishev nonsense, but not at the cost of destroying the Motherland. I am not sure that Mikhail Sergeyevich has now been forgiven and will soon be forgotten. Although Rodzianko was in his place 100 years ago. Today, only a few people know about him.
And death in August is certainly a mystery.
https://t.me/ASGasparyan/27469
The symbolism of course is 2022. Gorbachev, Kravchuk, Shushkevich
https://t.me/ASGasparyan/27470
