Question by kate: Why did world celebrate 80th birthday of First Russian president M. Gorbachev as a gala bash but?
in his homeland, the event was briefly mentioned by the media.
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Answer by blinkenlights7
Gorbachev is more popular in Western countries than he is in Russia. In particular the Germans like him very much because he enabled the anschluss of West and East Germany into the Bundesrepublik Deutschland as it exists today. Gorbachev’s westward-looking policies of glasnost and perestroika also appeal to Western attitudes about good style of government. In Russia there is a currently a trend of conservatism that takes a dim view of this kind of openess so he is not very popular there right now.
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