> And yet Gorby is one of the most despised and hated
> men in Russia, despite thet fact that the poll thinks
> he did a way better job than either of his successors
> on almost every measure of well-being. How do you
> explain this?
>
> --- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm reading a book put out by the Gorbachev Fund, a
>> great collection of essays on Perestroika after 20
>> Years that even contains some foreign authors like
>> Stephen Cohen. The last chapter has a bunch of great
>> opinion polls going back to 1987 or so. I thought
>> this
>> recent one really shows the mood in the country. The
>> numbers are amazing!
>>
>> In your view, under which leader -- Gorbachev,
>> Yeltsin, or Putin -- was the state of affairs in the
>> country best? (%)
>>
Simple(?)... Like Americans explain away GWB. He's an asshole, but he is (he was) OUR asshole.
...Kind of like what the average middle class Iraqi probably thought of Saddam Hussein.
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Leigh