>Chris Doss wrote:
> >I think the majority of the money gained from G's speaking appearances
> >in the West goes to financing the Green Cross International and the
>Social
> >Democratic Party of Russia. He certainly can't get much money speaking
> >in Russia, 'cause no one likes him enough to pay a lot. (I think almost
>all
> >of the $5 million from the Pizza Hut ad went to the GCI.)
>
>Yeah, Gorbachev said the money from the University of Florida gig was going
>to GCI. I was amused to see our notoriously conservative student
>government
>pay a socialist more than they paid another former president of a
>superpower,
>GHW Bush, who got around $75K, I think it was, for a half hour winge last
>year.
>
>Jenny Brown
As a socialist who has been in Russia off and on for two years, I gotta say that I love Gorby. He was a bumbling idealist, but at least he had guts, and his heart is in the right place. I think things in the FSU would be much, much better if he hadn't lost power (tarrying with historical hypotheticals, am I). He was probably the first genuine Communist idealistic believer to lead the USSR since Lenin (and a lot nicer, of course).
If anybody out there wants it, and knows Russian, I have the Website address of Gorby's Social Democratic Party of Russia.
BTW, although I mostly loathe the guy, I live GB the First kudos for actively opposing the dissolution of the USSR.
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