Mikhail Gorbachev has died

[Bingoman]

It just been reported that for Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has died

Mikhail Gorbachev: Former Soviet leader has died - reports

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died, according to Russia's Interfax News Agency.

news.sky.com

 

[Ax^]

more aww and the fook he was alive

thought he was long dead

 

[AmateurAgitator]

meh

 

[Bingoman]

I wonder if Russia will give a state funeral?

 

[agricola]

Very sad news that

 

[A380]

A man who shaped the modern world and was brave enough to face down reactionaries in Russia and beyond.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I wonder if Russia will give a state funeral?

They're not big on reverence for former leaders. Kruschchev never even got an obituary IIRC.

 

[platinumsage]

They're not big on reverence for former leaders. Kruschchev never even got an obituary IIRC.

Yeah Lenin’s body was summarily incinerated, and Brezhnev was famously buried in Kamchatka

 

[SpookyFrank]

Yeah Lenin’s body was summarily incinerated, and Brezhnev was famously buried in Kamchatka

Neither of those things is remotely true.

 

[A380]

Neither of those things is remotely true.

I think they are deploying irony for rhetorical effect...

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Trotsky didn't get a state funeral, as I recall.

 

[agricola]

Trotsky didn't get a state funeral, as I recall.

someone got the Hero of the Soviet Union for organizing it though

 

[Bingoman]

someone got the Hero of the Soviet Union for organizing it though

Cleary not big in state funerals for their heroes then

 

[tim]

He'll be disappointed at the turn-out at his funeral

 

[Pickman's model]

I see the guardian is as ever on the ball

 

[Sue]

I see the guardian is as ever on the ball
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Tbf, getting the wrong Lib Dem is perfectly understandable really.

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Tbf, getting the wrong Lib Dem is perfectly understandable really.

Every Lib Dem is the wrong Lib Dem.

 

[Pickman's model]

Tbf, getting the wrong Lib Dem is perfectly understandable really.

There's only fucking 14 of them

 

[Pickman's model]

Every Lib Dem is the wrong Lib Dem.

Yes they're all wrong uns

 

[Sue]

There's only fucking 14 of them

Lib Dems are so hard to remember and so easy to forget.

 

[Yossarian]

Surprised he made it to 91 without Putin poisoning him.

 

[tommers]

 

[Idris2002]

He stopped Ronald Reagan from killing me.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I see the guardian is as ever on the ball
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What is he, three leaders ago now?

 

[skyscraper101]

I’ll have a Pizza Hut in his memory tomorrow

 

[tim]

Lib Dems are so hard to remember and so easy to forget.

When they shoot your dog, they're not!

 

[danny la rouge]

What is he, three leaders ago now?

Gorbachev? Yes, it goes: Gorby, Yeltsin, Putin. (Putin had to do a constitutional dance from president to prime minister to president again, before changing the rules, but he was de facto leader the whole time).

 

[Raheem]

Trotsky didn't get a state funeral, as I recall.

The state didn't pay for the flowers but, let's be fair, it wouldn't have been the same without its contribution.

 

[Raheem]

I’ll have a Pizza Hut in his memory tomorrow

Good idea. I'm going to organise a flashmob queue at McDonald's.

 

[petee]

He stopped Ronald Reagan from killing me.

how's this now?