A snippet from an email conversation with a Russian friend.
> > Gorbachev is still loved in the West. I used to
> > think he was great.
> > I still think he had good intentions, but was
> > completely incompetent.
>
> -Gorbachev was great??? o no. His system upseted and
> maybe broke all my parents and other people of their
> age planes and lifes. It touched also me, of course.