While some praise him for ending the Cold War, others blame him for economic hardship. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LOS ANGELES - Decades after immigrating to the United States in search of freedom to live and pray as they chose, without state control or discrimination, members of the Russian-speaking diaspora expressed gratitude to Mikhail Gorbachev for"I and others who like freedom, we are thankful that Gorbachev did everything to bring freedom to our country," said Konstantin Chvouim, 74.
Gorbachev lifted restrictive policies that enabled hundreds of thousands of Jews like Chvouim to seek futures in the United States and Israel.About 1.2 million immigrants from the former Soviet Union called the United States home in 2019, according to tabulations of census data by the Migration Policy Institute.
Whether they arrived in the United States decades ago, or just last year, Russians and others from the former Soviet Union said that they admired the last Soviet president for"I respect Gorbachev for putting Russia on its knees without firing any single shot," said Mark Goren, 75, another Russian speaker who immigrated to Los Angeles from Kyiv decades ago.
"My generation thinks Gorbachev was a good guy," said Grigorian, a former restaurateur who is awaiting a work permit in Los Angeles.
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