{"id":820,"date":"2013-05-30T22:33:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T22:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/?p=820"},"modified":"2013-05-30T22:34:19","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T22:34:19","slug":"russians-name-brezhnev-best-20th-century-leader-gorbachev-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/2013\/05\/30\/russians-name-brezhnev-best-20th-century-leader-gorbachev-worst\/","title":{"rendered":"Russians name Brezhnev best 20th-century leader, and Gorbachev worst."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/2013\/05\/30\/russians-name-brezhnev-best-20th-century-leader-gorbachev-worst\/49_si-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-822\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-822\" alt=\"49_si\" src=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/files\/2013\/05\/49_si1-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>A surprising and timely <a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/politics\/brezhnev-stalin-gorbachev-soviet-638\/\">poll<\/a> in Russia placed\u00a0the hardline\u00a0Leonid Brezhnev as their most popular leader, and the reforming Mikhail Gorbachev &#8211; the man who from our western view point is often seen as a hero for his part in ending the Cold War &#8211; as the worst.<\/p>\n<p>This is helpful to us as it reminds us of the perils of defining achievement and success in western terms. As Professor Valery Solovei told Kommersant daily \u201c<i>No one would want to live in Stalin\u2019s era, but he personifies what now is in shortage: Justice and equality in fear<\/i>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This is of course something that we have discussed when we asked who was the most successful of the Russian dictators.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kydd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A surprising and timely poll in Russia placed\u00a0the hardline\u00a0Leonid Brezhnev as their most popular leader, and the reforming Mikhail Gorbachev &#8211; the man who from our western view point is often seen as a hero for his part in ending &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/2013\/05\/30\/russians-name-brezhnev-best-20th-century-leader-gorbachev-worst\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}