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Anyone wondering that between Brezhnev and Gorby they were Soviet leaders. Also the guy on the left was Nikolai Tikhonov the Soviet Premier at the time if your curious.

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[–] ComradeChris101@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So it adds that Gorbachev was not an experienced leader unlike Andropov?

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

To put it mildly. He was an idiot.

[–] ComradeChris101@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago

Not really because in a way he knew that his actions were going to destroy socialism but he didn't care nor understood.