Let’s gooolll

  • RedFortress@lemmygrad.ml
    43·
    2 years ago

    If only Stalin lived as long

    Now he dies leaving a mess between Russia and Ukraine of which he is responsible

  • KommandoGZD@lemmygrad.ml
    41·
    2 years ago

    One of Gorbachev’s final messages came through a close friend and journalist Alexey Venediktov. A scathing rebuke of Putin’s current policies:

    “What Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev did is all destroyed. All Gorbachev’s reforms—to zero, to ashes, to smoke.”

    Thanks Putin for making the piece of shit witness everything he’s done go up in flames. I hope he seethed to his last breath. Rip in piss bozo

  • tisamantis@lemmygrad.ml
    32·
    2 years ago

    It may sound very jaded, but I envy people who can find joy in what happened. I’m mostly disappointed. His death undid nothing, and his legacy remains.

    I’ve stumbled across transphobic and racist memes while searching for info, so maybe it’s a small glimpse into that legacy too. (…spoiler below explains what I’m complaining about)

    Putin already expressed his “deep condolences”. (my source is a federal news agency)

    TASS screenshot inside spoiler.

    toxic memes I found, w/ shoddy translation

    "It seems Netflix is making a series about Gorbachev. This is, perhaps, the only instance when I wouldn’t be against Gorbachev being [played by] a negro-pederast [note - it’s literally what it says]. Maybe even a transgender…mentally disabed… "

    (This meme is based on a tweet, the amount of likes it got is sad.)

    “Title: Well then, now we wait for the film adaptation of his biography by Netflix?”

    “[Says Gorby died today]. Now is the time for world’s cinema to commit to accurate and detailed recreation of Gorby’s visage on film:”

    (Sorry for robotic translations, I can’t seem to find good words rn…)

      • tisamantis@lemmygrad.ml
        25·
        2 years ago

        I agree, but he deserved far worse.

        A death on a comfy hospital bed and at an old age is not retribution.

        Official Russian media is expressing condolences and some are even singing him praise. It’s painful to see.

        (To name a few ones from TASS, one brings up Arnold Schwarzenegger’s thoughts of all people, and another - UN General Secretary’s opinion where they say Gorby “did more than anyone to change the course for history and achieve a peaceful resolution of the Cold War, w/o bloodshed”. Infuriating.)

        • Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.ml
          12·
          2 years ago

          Agree, its sad these fuckers didn’t face a tribunal for all the deaths they caused. Russia’s life expectancy dropped like 10 years because of this man’s idiocy.

    • TeezyZeezy@lemmygrad.ml
      22·
      2 years ago

      Me too. I will indulge in the posts of celebration, don’t get me wrong. But the fact that it’s only one person out of the whole machine…

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
      221·
      2 years ago

      I’m mostly disappointed. His death undid nothing, and his legacy remains.

      True. I’m also incredibly disappointed that he wasn’t properly judged by people’s tribunal of second USSR and then got the wall, this would be the only proper justice.

      But oh well.

  • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺@lemmygrad.mlM
    32·
    2 years ago

    🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀 you beat me too it, I found out about this while I was driving. but may all the proletarian sleep easy tonight, that the man who sold out the Soviet Union is no longer here

  • frippa@lemmy.mlOP
    32·
    2 years ago

    not all deaths are the same, he caused tons of sufference and no proletarian will cry for him

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.ml
    32·
    2 years ago

    There goes the last of the giants, now comfortably settled in with Reagan and Thatcher. He probably wasn’t as malicious as either, but he was almost definitely more useless than both.

    See you, space cowboy.

      • Amicese@lemmygrad.ml
        141·
        2 years ago

        I mean, he was more useful to the capitalists, he took out the largest socialist power at the time, and set back global communism quite a way.

        and thus guaranteed that climate change will fuck humanity over…