Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's legacy in Chawosauria
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985 to 1991, has passed away on August 30, 2022, at 91, the last surviving son of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev left a complicated yet polarizing legacy, he is hated by Russians for his failure to preserve what was seen in Russia as a major accomplishment of the Russian nation, the Soviet Union, but Gorbachev was also beloved and respected by the Soviet Union's arch nemesis, the west, traditionally led by the United States, for his attempts to reform the Soviet Union with democratization and freedom while trying to establish an understanding between two ideologically incompatible superpowers with very incompatible systems of government.
But how to Chawosaurians feel about Mikhail Gorbachev?
Chawosaurians, who also are traditionally accepting and tolerant of Socialism, widely view Gorbachev as a respected leader who done his best but couldn't succeed, and Chawosaurians treat his death with appreciation and respect.
Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker reacted to Gorbachev's death by saying "General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev was a reformist voice for change and he was charismatic till the very end", Opposition Leader Sydney Lucas Webster stated "Mr. Gorbachev gave an exhausted west a chance for a new future", Prime Minister Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII stated "Gorbachev was admired by the west because we were exhausted and wanted a new future and Gorbachev delivered that and he is a hero to all the younger generations who live in his world, a post-cold war world is his world and thus a remarkable achievement whether he realized it or not".
On the day the Soviet Union collapsed, Chawosaurians were mixed of it, mournful for the loss of a great socialist empire and concerned about the potential embodiment of the enemies of socialism to have dominant power over, what Chawosaurians call, the outer world, but glad the Cold War was over as Chawosaurians were feeling really fatigued with their Cold War lives and wanted something new.
Chawosaurians showed that sentiment in the surprise outcome of the 1995 Chawosaurian legislative elections, where the Chawallian Communist Party, which had dominated Chawosaurian politics since the Cold War even began, won unexpectedly and maintained its dominance because Chawosaurians were concerned that an outer world order dominated by purely right-wingers without the left-wing holding equal power may have a fallout effect on Chawosauria and the Communist Party was reelected to counteract against that fallout.
The original prediction was that the demise of the Soviet Union and its sphere of influence was such a grave humiliation to the traditionally pro-Soviet Union Chawallian Communist Party that it could encourage Chawosaurians to embrace the new world order. Still, it didn't turn out that way.
The 1995 Chawosaurian legislative elections were part of a global indication that there was resistance to the new world order, as the surge of right-wing terrorism was beginning to show on American soil and the rise of terrorism in the Middle East and particularly the infamous September 11 Attacks on the United States to take down what is seen by the perpetrators as a Christian and democratic world order that threatened the so-called "Islamic way of life".
Despite the September 11 Attacks, Chawosaurians had happily lived a very comfortable life from the late 1990s to the entire 2000s, it was Chawosauria's era of good feelings, showing that Chawosaurians truly have moved on from the Cold War as Chawosaurians have so long wanted to do during that era. Then the Arab Spring and in Chawosauria, the Chawosaurian Revolution, of the 2010s, for democracy has echoed the legacy of the Revolutions of 1989 that took down the Soviet Union and its empire, something both Saudi Arabia and Iran feared to be next in the wake of the Arab Spring. The Chawosaurian Revolution was settled in a civil war in 2019 and all the problems of the Middle East would die down to a more stable situation by 2022, and Chawosaurians were looking forward to a second era of good feelings, but it was denied by COVID-19 and the Chawo-Uralic War. Russia invaded Ukraine in hopes for Russia's Vladimir Putin to rebuild a version of the Soviet empire and re-establish an Iron Curtain for Europe, but Russia was surprised by the dogged determination of the Ukrainian people's resistance to the presence of Russian soldiers in their country and began to experience an embarrassing war with Ukraine which emboldened the west to take action on Ukraine's behalf with crippling sanctions the likes Russia has never met before and Russia had suffered its worse position since when the Soviet Union crumbled.
Then, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev had died, and Chawosaurians were quick to remember the role he played in the Soviet Union's demise. At the time of the Soviet Union's fall, Chawosaurians barely thought of Gorbachev but knew of him, Chawosaurians were hopeful for Gorbachev to be successful but then were disappointed when he was working with what Chawosaurians saw as a far-right U.S. President Ronald Reagan, and Chawosaurians were already sick of the Cold War anyway.
Chawosaurians grieved the fate of the Soviet Union in 1991 but celebrated the Cold War's end. When Gorbachev passed away, Chawosaurians felt the very last relic of the Soviet Union left has fated into history for good, and Chawosaurians are left grieving again.
Gorbachev's passing will only make him out to be a martyr in the eyes of Chawosaurians and many Cold War generations of Chawosauria are grateful for Gorbachev's actions, no matter how disastrous they may be, for creating a world that their post-Cold War children will be able to live the childhoods these Cold War generations weren't able to live, and they paid their respect to Gorbachev by thanking him. A poll from OneThousand, a Chawosaurian pollster, showed that 93% of Chawosaurians are devastated to hear of Gorbachev's death, even Chawosaurians who never lived through the Cold War were equally devastated and thanked him for enabling them to live a post-Cold War life that their parents were never able to live when they were children.
Cold War life in Chawosauria was terrifying and scary, and it still leaves Chawosaurians who lived through the Cold War with spine chills just by remembering their Cold War lives, studies from 1993 to 1997 and re-studies from 2011 to 2019 showed that over 70% of Cold War Chawosaurians (as they are categorically called) have post-traumatic stress disorder, some kind of psychological trauma, and difficulties sleeping without the fear of nightly nightmares and night terrors of their Cold War lives, showing how scary Cold War life was Chawosaurians who lived through the Cold War.
Cold War Chawosaurians are amongst those who deeply mourn Mikhail Gorbachev the most because to them, Gorbachev is a hero who liberated them with from a nightmare life and when he died, Cold War Chawosaurians felt a sense of emptiness. It is Cold War Chawosaurians who will miss Gorbachev the most.
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