#MikhailGorbachev was chosen general secretary of the #SovietUnion's Communist Party #OnThisDay in 1985 a day after the death of Constantin Chernenko, initiating six years of radical change that would lead to the dissolution of the #USSR...
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#MikhailGorbachev — the last #Soviet leader and the only one born in the #USSR — was elected to the General Secretary position on #ThisDayInHistory in 1985. His slow move towards #SocialDemocracy, and reform projects #glasnost & #perestroika, accidentally undermined the state.
Happy Birthday Mikhail Gorbachev. (RIP) #HappyBirthdayMikhailGorbachev #MikhailGorbachev #Birthday #WorldLeader #Legend #Legends
R.I.P., Roy #Medvedev [°Nov. 14, 1925 – Feb. 13, 2026]🕯️😔🌹
#centenarian #Samizdat #LetHistoryJudge #TheRiseandFallofTDLysenko #AndreiDSakharov #MikhailGorbachev #Stalinism #ZhoresMedvedev #YuliaIsaakovnaReiman #RoyAleksandrovichMedvedev #RoyMedvedev
#RonaldReagan & #MikhailGorbachev met in Geneva #OnThisDay in 1985 in the first of a series of summits; the second was held in #Reykjavík in Oct. 1986; eight years ago (7.24.17), I passed Höfði, the site Oct. 1986 summit between Reagan & Gorbachev... #Iceland
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On #ThisDayInHistory in 1985, #RonaldReagan first met #MikhailGorbachev in Geneva. In addition to ending the #ArmsRace, they discussed whether each would help the other in a hypothetical alien invasion. Reagan noted later that "we are all human beings... on this Earth together".
#ErichHonecker opened the #BerlinWall #OnThisDay in 1989 under pressure from #MikhailGorbachev: the fall of the #BerlinerMauer was the effective end of Soviet control of #EastGermany's totalitarian #DDR regime & the symbolic end of the #ColdWar...
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#MikhailGorbachev was made head of the Supreme Soviet #OnThisDay in 1988 three years after becoming general secretary of the Communist Party, initiating radical change that would lead to the dissolution of the USSR — a turning point in the history of the world...
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#berlin #berlinwall #1980s #mikhailgorbachev #russia #ussr #coldwar #ronaldreagan #germany #europe #nato #warsawpact #europeanunion #history
Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-2022), Soviet leader
Died #otd Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-2022), Soviet leader, 3 years ago today #MikhailGorbachev life story...
#OnThisDay in 2022, #MikhailGorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1985-91), died after an unspecified long and grave illness at 91.
#RIP 🕊️🪦🎚️🕯️
#OnThisDay in 1991, the coup against #MikhailGorbachev collapsed after just three days but the dissolution of the Soviet Union led to the emergence of a corrupt kleptocratic Mafia state in #Russia that #VladimirPutin now leads...
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5,000 Soviet tanks rolled into #Czechoslovakia as Leonid Brezhnev sent 250,000 Soviet & Warsaw Pact troops in to crush the #PragueSpring #OnThisDay in 1968; the Czech & Slovak people would not taste freedom again until #MikhailGorbachev released them from captivity...
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#OnThisDay in 1991, Communist Party hardliners launched a coup état against #MikhailGorbachev which Boris Yeltsin helped defeat but it led to the dissolution of the #SovietUnion & eventually to #VladimirPutin's reign of terror after Yeltsin named Putin his successor:
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OMG LMMFAO! #Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com is hitting Donald where it hurts most and hits hardest: ridicule. 😂😂
Donald thought he was so important (circa 1987) that #MikhailGorbachev would be so impressed by him he would take time out of his schedule to meet HIM? He'd probably never heard of Donald. 😆
Chernenko to Gorbachev
#MikhailGorbachev was chosen general secretary of the #SovietUnion's Communist Party #OnThisDay in 1985 a day after the death of Constantin Chernenko, initiating six years of radical change that would lead to the dissolution of the #USSR...
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40 years ago on the 11th March 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev was formally elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, succeeding Konstantin Chernenko.
#Горбачев #Gorbachev #Mikhail #MikhailGorbachev #CommunistParty #USSR #SovietUnion #Socialism #Communism #Communist #Communists
Happy Birthday Mikhail Gorbachev. (RIP) #HappyBirthdayMikhailGorbachev #MikhailGorbachev #Birthday #RIPMikhailGorbachev #RestInPeace #Legend #Legends
Powerful item by Mikhail Zygar in the NYT. Why is Putin glad about a Trump victory? In the longer term, it isn't so much about Ukraine, as the very collapse of the USA itself,as a political entity. #coldwar #putin #ussr #sovietunion #Russia #mikhailgorbachev #history
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🕊November 19, 1985: US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
#onthisday #todayinhistory #worldhistory #1980s #coldwar #politics
#ronaldreagan #mikhailgorbachev #ussr #geneva #generationjones #diplomacy
🍼🪦 30 août, un jour, une vie, un décès www.election-politique.com/election.php...
#Anniversaire #Birthday #30Aout #30Agosto #30deAgosto #30August #August30 #AlexandreLoukachenko #MikhailGorbachev
Soviet tanks
5,000 Soviet tanks rolled into #Czechoslovakia as Leonid Brezhnev sent 250,000 Soviet & Warsaw Pact troops in to crush the #IPragueSpring #OnThisDay in 1968; Czechs & Slovaks would not taste freedom again until #MikhailGorbachev released them from Soviet captivity...
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coup against Gorbachev
#OnThisDay in 1991, Communist Party hardliners launched a coup état against #MikhailGorbachev which Boris Yeltsin helped defeat but it led to the dissolution of the #SovietUnion & eventually to #VladimirPutin's reign of terror which continues to this day...
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« Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences. »
― Mikhail Gorbachev
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#quotes #MikhailGorbachev #peace #unity #diversity #oneness #interbeing
Ronald Reagan
#RonaldReagan gave a speech at the #BerlinWall #OnThisDay in 1987 — which he subsequently claimed immediately brought about the collapse of the #SovietUnion; but of course it was #MikhailGorbachev — not Reagan — who ended the Cold War:
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Matthias Rust
Mathias Rust landed his Cessna in #Moscow's Red Square #OnThisDay in 1987, shocking the Soviet military & seriously damaging its reputation; the daring exploit gave #MikhailGorbachev the pretext to purge hard-line Communists from the military...
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Chernenko succeeded by Gorbachev in 1985
#MikhailGorbachev was chosen general secretary of the #SovietUnion's Communist Party #OnThisDay in 1985 a day after the death of Constantin Chernenko, initiating six years of radical change that would lead to the dissolution of the #USSR — a turning point...
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