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tweeting to Gorbachev

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2019.09.12

So I wrote a tweet to Mikhail Gorbachev to thank him for getting the USSR through the Chernobyl crisis. It occurred to me to do so when watching that mini-series about the incident and its handling.

(Alternate title: How to wind up on some list, somewhere.)

rand()m quote

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero