He claims Gorbachev actually believed he was saving socialism. Is this true? Was he actually just an idiot? It feels possible but I have always just considered him to be evil

  • Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    5 hours ago

    If he didn’t believe it, he was at least willing to pretend to his dying days that what Russia needed was social democracy. I think fuck up and idiot is more likely than demon. But at a certain level of power the two become morally equivalent.