Nameless

[matrixmann]

† Mikhail Gorbachev

(insert "Straight to hell"-jingle of your own choice here)

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[matrixmann]

Of course the US and the Western world praises him for dissolving the Soviet Union and, by that, freeing up all the precious natural resources of the Russian lands which the West wants to consume (still today) and leave the common people behind with the dirt and the trash that results from the extraction.

But, that's a purely external view. There's also that side of Russian/Soviet politics internally.
And in that point, he's been like the gravedigger for something that was already withering away on the deathbed. Including that Gorby also had its own agenda of lobbyism and people as his followers among the party members, like a personal club.
And in that point, he's been questionable since the very beginning. Since he was also a figure trying to size power (after the Soviet Union's unlucky "fate" of seeing several party leaders and heads of state die one after another in a relatively short amount of time.)

On another hand I can't wish him too well too since he's sold the country I was born to to Kohl and West Germany.
Which brought much, much misery upon people, deindustrialized the area and turned "us" into 2nd class German citizens still until today.