Mikhail Gorbachev has died

Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by romwell on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @11:09PM (#32657939)

Hindsight is 20/20, sure, but the 90s were a time where a lot of people didn't have anything to eat, a time where everyone's life savings turned to dust overnight, a time where many people ended up homeless, a time where highly educated people became unemployed without warning (or couldn't get salaries for years on end) and were better off sweeping streets than working at science institutes...

And that set a basis for Putin being revered in early 2000s for bringing in "stability".

The war in Ukraine is an outgrowth of that.

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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by avmich on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @01:49AM (#32658826)

> but the 90s were a time where a lot of people didn't have anything to eat, a time where

True, it was a quite big transformation of lives for everybody - fortunately without a major civil war, though with many lesser wars in less centralized regions. Yet the result was an improvement on average, in Russia it started to feel in 1999, and even earlier in Baltic countries. Wouldn't be sure about Asian countries though.

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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by romwell on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:55AM (#32663953)

Sure, but 8 years of turmoil without a "major" civil war (but two Chechen wars with massive destruction and causlties) is a very, very low bar.

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