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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 207 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's sort of a version of an old Soviet joke...

A Soviet man is waiting in line to purchase vodka from a liquor store, but due to restrictions imposed by Gorbachev, the line is very long. The man loses his composure and screams, "I can't take this waiting in line anymore, I HATE Gorbachev, I am going to the Kremlin right now, and I am going to kill him!" After 40 minutes the man returns and elbows his way back to his place in line. The crowd begin to ask if he has succeeded in killing Gorbachev. "No, I got to the Kremlin all right, but the line to kill Gorbachev was even longer than here!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_political_jokes#Gorbachev

(I heard a different version with Khrushchev, but I'm sure it was told a lot.)

[–] ChilledPeppers@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Wasn't Gorbachev the chillest of all Russian rulers? For some reason that is his image in my head.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wasn’t Gorbachev the chillest of all Russian rulers?

He was the most friendliest, from a Western point of view.
But he was also the last, meaning that he presided over the time when the Soviet Union was collapsing.

[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

He was the most friendliest, from a Western point of view.

Yeah, but not the most obedient. That's why the west preferred Yeltsin - and his faithful number two, Putin.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I would guess Yeltsin for most chill. But either way I’m thinking by gorbachev’s time bread lines were still pretty bad.

[–] wieson@feddit.org 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well Yeltsin had tanks shoot at the parliament building

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

yeah but he was breezy about it