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Mikhail Gorbachev has died

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970 points homarp | 2 comments | 30 Aug 22 20:37 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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eloy ◴[30 Aug 22 21:05 UTC] No.32655060[source]▶
RIP Gorbachev, one of the few genuinely good people in politics.

After he retired from politics, he was featured in several advertisements:

- In 1994 for Apple Computer: https://www.upi.com/Archives/1994/10/07/The-first-advertisem...

- In 1998 for Pizza Hut: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorbachev_Pizza_Hut_commercial

- In 2000 for the ÖBB, the Austrian railways: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLscz8kEg6c

- In 2007 for Louis Vuitton: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/05/business/media/05vuitton....

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jakuboboza ◴[31 Aug 22 06:19 UTC] No.32659021[source]▶
Good ? What about sending tanks against Lithuanians and you know...killing people. How good is this ?

700+ injured and 14 dead doesnt sound like something "genuinely good person" does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_Events_(Lithuania)

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ironcurtain[dead post] ◴[31 Aug 22 07:24 UTC] No.32659351[source]▶
gizmo385 ◴[31 Aug 22 07:42 UTC] No.32659468{3}[source]▶
> the War of Northern Aggression

That’s some choice phrasing there. Mind explaining this framing? Pretty sure the only people I’ve seen use this phrasing were people who thought the confederacy and slavery were good things

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1. me_me_me ◴[31 Aug 22 08:26 UTC] No.32659733{4}[source]▶
As non US person i was scratching my head about what exactly that meant.
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