8.10b - first impression and questions [Yes, I am going to hijack this thread!]

[Derek Broughton]

Emanoil Kotsev wrote:

> --- On Fri, 10/10/08, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> 
>> From: Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>
>> Subject: Re: 8.10b - first impression and questions [Yes, I am going to
>> hijack this thread!] To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Date: Friday, October 10, 2008, 1:08 AM
>> Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
>> 
>> > I think one very important name should be mentioned
>> here - the man called
>> > Michail Gorbatchov. If it wasn't him we could end
>> up in a nuclear desaster
>> > and linux wouldn't see the daylight at all ;-)
>> 
>> OK, if you want to go all serious on us :-)
>> 
>> I agree - Gorbachev was vital.  I shudder to think what
>> could have happened
>> if Yeltsin or Putin had been at the helm instead of
>> Gorbachev.
> 
> No, I don't want to get very serious on it. In fact there was one between
> Brezhnev (not sure in spelling either) and Gorbachev (thanks for this
> didn't know how you spell it),

Well, it should be Cyrillic, so _your_ spelling is no doubt at least as good
as mine.  "Gorbachev" is the way I've most often seen in spelled here, but
I've certainly seen "Gorbachov", too.

> whos name I don't remember, and he "died" 
> very fast after taking the leadership, but he was a hardliner and was
> going to start the nuclear war - 

Andropov.  There's much speculation that he actually died even earlier than
the politburo admitted.  
-- 
derek