Gorby's bad Russian

[ChrisD(RJ)]

Back during Gorbymania days, Spy mag did a story saying that he was 
rather crude, and his Russian sounded like a rube's. Is there any 
truth to that?

Doug
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I should also mention that, although Gorbachev was the first Soviet leader
since Lenin to have attended a university, I don't think he ever got rid of
his provincial Russian. Gorbachev was born in a little rural village to a
family of peasants (there was a lot of upward mobility in the USSR!).

Chris Doss
The Russia Journal