Leader of the soviet union, Mikhail Gorbachev has died aged 91 years old in moscow. Central hospital after a prolonged illness, we will be looking through his historic legacy in our special coverage in just a few moments. Im with at least 30 people are reportedly killed and over 7700 wounded in clashes in bagdad following the retirement from politics of a leading shia cleric, who opposes us influence. And a raft. With more than 1200 of key of troops are reported killed and a botched offensive ordered by ukrainian president Vladimir Zalinski in that country south that supporting data disclosed by russias defense with hello, youre watching our to international. Im donald quarter. Welcome to the program. Now breaking news on our t, the final leader of the soviet union, Mikhail Gorbachev has died aged to 91. 00 in moscow, Central Hospital after a prolonged illness and he top politicians from around the west have already expressed their deep condolences over his death. Now lets take a look
Was prepared to pay almost any price in order to receive the needed credits from outside. He saw the distributors ation of his own country. He had lost already control over Eastern Europe and he was losing control of his own party of his own establishment. And really, also fearing and after a cool in his own country, he was very weak, just fine, strong criticism of perestroika and its consequences. Gorbachev insisted that it was not a failure did only just been derailed. You will get them. I dont agree when people say the perestroika failed, it didnt fail. It was disrupted derailed in the beginning of 990. 00. Gorbachev Approval Rating in the u. S. S aust at 70 percent. However, by the end of the year that dropped all the way down to 20, lets get people felt let down by perestroika when their hopes for a Better Future simply were not met. Now at the same time go, but jobs racing in the west remain very high. In the west, he was at 81 percent Approval Rating in america, 75. 00 in german
To greatly reduce the size of nuclear arsenals, and certainly they were successful and ending the cold war. The question about they got the chocolate deleting row and ending the cold war. And we shouldnt be installed for that because never could have begun by accidents or all sorts of ways in which our Devastating Nuclear War could have broken out. And gorbachev certainly more than anyone else, plays a decisive role in ending that threat. Any of the ussr as foreign commitments ended during gorbachevs rule, one of the most significant of which was the enrollment of a collective defense treaty among communist states in europe. The warsaw pact which marked the end of the cold war and led to the withdrawal of the soviet army from european countries. The council for mutual economic assistance in the eastern bloc, also known as comic con, was also disbanded, as well as there was also the withdrawal of soviet armed forces from afghanistan after 10 years of war. 979 canister. The situation is
This evening, the Rachel Maddow show starts now. Early for a change. I have something to spend this time doing. Exactly. Thanks, my friend, appreciate it. Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Very happy to have you here tonight. Who here is old enough to have ever used a typewriter . I took typing class and it was on a typewriter. Im that old. Typewriters started off with a mechanism that looked like this. You pressed a button on a keyboard for a specific letter, but then a little arm, a little bar would swing up from the guts of the keyboard and smack that letter into the inked typewriter ribbon, and thereby pressed the imprint of that letter on to the paper, right . So that was the mechanism. Each keystroke on the typewriter would cause a piece of metal to fling itself up toward the paper. A different little bar with a different letter on it for each keystroke. That was how they started out. But then in 1961, ibm changed all of that. Ibm invented a whole new kind of elect
Try number 16. Ill talk to porter about the study. And a week after three people were killed in an antisemitic attack in kansas, i will talk to simon sherman, the author of the story of the jews about why jews have been a target for more than 2,000 years. But first, heres my take. Over the past two months, we have watched what has looked like a minor version of the cold war between the west and russia. Many people are wondering, how did we get here . Was this confrontation inevitable or did the west mishandle russia from the start . And the mishandling camp is jack matlock, former u. N. Ambassador to the soviet union in the late 1980s who watched from moscow as Mikhail Gorbachev presided over the cold war. He wrote, the United States has treated russia as a loseer sir the end of the cold war. In the years after the cold war ended, writers urged policy toward a more gentle moscow. I was one of them. My logic was simple. We had two healthy experiments in peace settlements after world war