faith i think said pruden is probably trying to be as nice as couldn't possibly can be, which is not very nice at all by praising gorbachev. after all the poor man is dead . oh. but i, but i think odin's basic position was and his to blame. gorbachev for the greatest geo political catastrophe of the 20th century, as he sees a gorbachev when potent came in at 1st gave him the benefit of the doubt. if you look back at putin's early speeches, you can see that putin spoke well of democracy and rejected totalitarianism. and gorbachev gave them a chance, a spook, and turned more and more authoritarian. gorbachev became more and more critical. but even then, he held his fire, and i think the reason was he wanted to remain, ah, in good enough graces with putin, that putin might conceivably even ask him at some points for advice. i don't, frankly, think that ever happened. well, and so what was the light or in the last little wharf? gorbachev? well, gorbachev has been ill for we're long time. ah, i last saw him in 2018 when my biography of him came out in russian. and he held a reception at h