Ever hear the one about
Gorbachov visiting Minnesota?

Yep.

GHW BUSH
wanted 2 keep the Ronnie
warms + cozies w RU,
bc they greedy +
wanted blood money opportunities.

"Red Stars Over Minnesota"
1990

Funny how GOPos adopted
Soviet tactics.

Hiya Gay Edgar Hoover.
Nixon | Reagan https://twitter.com/modernhomesla/status/1331693675433263104
Mikhail + Raisa Gorbachev
had arrived D.C.
May 30, 1990
4 3-day conclave w Bush.

B4 summit, GHW *surprised
many by rejecting sanctions
against Soviet Union
meddling in Lithuanian policy.

Meanwhile,
GOPos were preparing
*coup that fatally destablized
USSR in Aug 1991.

*Baltics
PERESTROIKA PERPICH

June 3, 1990

After GHW summit,
Mikhail + Raisa Gorbachev
raced 2 St. Paul, MN.

"On a rainy + unusually cold
June afternoon in 1990,
7 Soviet ZIL limousines"

Every corp gold-digger wanted access.

Soviet GOPos fuqqfest

🎩🎩
@sisu_sanity
@YDanasmithdutra
Mind u,
1990's was LIT!

So much going on in Baltics.

Personally,
majority of decade,
Paulie concerned w
Yugoslavia + Milosovich.

Those mass graves.

So, I tend 2 circle this history.

Last visit 2 a po-donk town
by Soviet leader;
Nikita Krushchev
1959 in Iowa🇨🇳
@RussellSieg
K. Let's roll some names.

Control Data
Robert Price
Raddison Hotels
Star Tribune
Roger Parkinson
Honeywell
Pillsbury
IBM
AT&T
'Gorbachev Visit' 501(c) [$607,845 spent on Petunias]

Oopsies, fund didn't pay OT on cops.
Y?
THIS is Some Soviet Fuqqed-Up Sh¡t

"CONNECT US/USSR
organized 35 *exchange programs
linking Minnesotans + Soviets
around common interests
from bicycling 2
CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY COUNSELING."

Watchu talkin' bout Willis?

Gahd, Soviets + Soviet GOPos
make Paulie sick.

Infiltration
Gorby Petunia Treatment
LaL

"There was also a man
in coat + tails + false mustache,
who told reporter,
"I am the ghost of
Neville Chamberlain.
In 1938,
Chamberlain made deal w Hitler.
In 1990,
Perpich making deal w Gorbachev."
Robert Maxwell?

Classic story of
Maxwell grifting his philanthropy.

U gotta open up this pic.

"Maxwell announced
he would donate $50M
2 create rsch *institute
2 b called,
[wait fer it]
GORBACHEV-MAXWELL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY."

He NEVER pays.

[u may now get up off flr]
Oh dear
Carlson Companies
Radisson Slavanskaya Hotel, Moscow
Story don't end well.

Dwayne Andreas
Archer Daniels Midland

Chase Manhattan
Coca-Cola
Occidental Petroleum

"U will not lose ur money in [USSR]."
~Mikhail Gorbachev 2 biz *leaders.

Some corp ldrs didn't attend hoopla
~ Control Data Corporation ~

Nuclear convos.
Cyber 962's

Yeah, Soviets still have hard time w
CHERNOBYL

As if garlic 2 vampire.

Wash-Wash-Washy-Wash

Maxwell dies
Nov 6, 1991
after GOPos Perestroika coup
Aug, 1991
Paul Tatum
Radisson Slavanskaya Hotel
1991
Brokered by
H.R. Haldeman,
fmr Nixon CoS.

~ In-tourist ~
Soviet *tourist agency.

When Soviet Union dissolved,
Moscow city govt
took over Soviet share[50%]

Radisson pushes Tatum out.

"Hotel became hangout
4 new mafia-like biznessmen."
"Fight 4 control ended
Nov 1996 when
Paul Tatum
was shot down in
apparent contract murder
while walking from hotel
2 nearby metro station
w 2 bodyguards."

Fun fact:
450 mostly unsolved
contract killings in Russia
1996

Tatum 1st western exec
2 die as result of RU biz.
Notes to dig deeper if interested.

This sh¡t is lit.
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