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30th August 2022, 02:37 PM | #1 |
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Gorbachev
Just thinking, what if they (in a change of tradition*) announced his death in advance, so as to avoid conflict with the 25th anniversary of Diana's passing?
* - For the younger people here, the death of a Soviet-era leader was not necessarily made public for |
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31st August 2022, 03:24 AM | #2 |
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The fall of the Soviet Union was 1991 and Gorbachev when he died was...91.
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31st August 2022, 10:45 AM | #3 |
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31st August 2022, 10:49 AM | #4 |
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I guess maybe clg is imagining a world where Gorbachev's death has some sort of major propaganda or PR potential for the Putin regime, and they would want to avoid having the news be overshadowed by the expected wall-to-wall international news coverage of memorials for Princess Diana.
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1st September 2022, 06:48 AM | #5 |
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Damn, I have failed. I should have posted this in the Humour subforum.
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3rd September 2022, 03:58 PM | #6 |
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Ah. I must confess, I saw the title and came here thinking there actually were CTs about Gorbachev's death. Nothing would surprise me any more, is all I'm saying.
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