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Reviewed version: October 13, 2006
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The following comments have been left for this page:
Article is now a failed good article candidate. Early life needs other reference sources, page numbers would help, a few citation tags need to be fixed. Neutrality considered a non-issue by reviewer. Badbilltucker 22:22, 16 October 2006 (UTC) (edit) |
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[edit] Accolades and Prizes
It is ironic that a man seen as the cause (inability to prevent the crisis)of fall of USSR was given Nobel peace prize and other prizes..(might have happened prior to dissolution of the Union but is very close to the date of dissolution). Clearly these Nobel prizes are given only for what western europe considers peace. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.138.120.65 (talk) 10:17, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
It's not a very good photo of the man. Any chance of a better one? SmokeyTheCat •TALK• 09:36, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
I saw a picture of him taken in 2008. It was on this article and even used for the front picture for some time, but then somebody must have changed it back to the previous picture of Gorbachev and removed the one taken in 2008 from the article. I am not absoluteley sure about this, I'll have to check edit history first.--Mart572 (talk) 04:48, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Watchlist
Could somebody who cares about this article please watchlist it and watch for vandalism? I just spent about 15 minutes fixing some old stuff that would have taken a few seconds if spotted immediately. (I'm already maintaining several hundred neuroscience articles and don't really want to take on new ones.) Looie496 (talk) 03:43, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Political prisoners died and Gorbachev did nothing
Political prisoners like Vasyl Stus (†1985) still died in captivity after he had rose to power, shouldn't this get mentioned somewhere in this article? He was not as "good" as he was pictured in Western media at the time (in my opinion). — Mariah-Yulia (talk) 22:42, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Picture
It is from at least 1993 and it looks like somone turned up a screen grab of him speaking to the USSR from the Kremlin on Soviet TV. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Duffy2032 (talk • contribs) 14:55, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
- Adding to my previous comment (sorry I forgot to sign it), he does speeches at colleges here in the US all the time, theres gotta be a picture of one of those out there instead of this.--Duffy2032 (talk) 14:58, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
- You would think so but, alas, one has not been found. This is the best solution that we have. Happyme22 (talk) 17:07, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
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