Gorbachev dies.

R.I.P. Gorby. You briefly changed the world. I'm so sorry for what your country has reverted to. I was naive enough to think that change could arrive to stay. Maybe so were you.

R.I.P Glasnost & Perestroika.

For a Russian Communist leader you seemed like a really nice man. Even your strawberry birthmark looked somehow endearing.

Nice try ....