[lbo-talk] Gorbachev no longer universally reviled!!

[suzume at mx82.tiki.ne.jp]

> I don't know Chris - I am always amazed to "learn" something about 
> Russia from the Western press. Gorbachev is more forgotten than hated 
> here. Having met him a number of times, it seems to me that he is an 
> easy person to forget.

He was on the soka gakkai posters last week shaking hands with the head 
(what's his name, ishida ?) that was in my rural japanese suburban 
train.

jc helary