Not coincidentally (since I brought up the subject) I had a conversation about Gorby and his legacy over vodka last night. The people I was with* compared him to Stalin -- everybody loved him when he was in power, and then blame him for all their woes afterward.
*I had always assumed one of them was part Ingush or something because of her skin tone, but she turned out to be something far more exotic -- Mexican-Russian! That's one you don't see every day.
--- Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
>
> That's a huge change from 5 years ago, no? You used
> to say often that G was
> reviled in Russia and only respected by Westerners.
> Is he again a respected
> figure inside Russia today? Do people now associate
> him with Putin's
> restoration rather than thinking of him as Yeltsin's
> Wegbereiter?
>
> Michael
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