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The Telegraph Article Rating

Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union whose glasnost reforms brought about the end of the Cold War - obituary

Aug 31, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    42% Medium Conservative

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  • Policy Leaning

    62% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -58% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : However, this earned her no more credit with the downtrodden Russian victims of communism than Gorbachev's success on the world stage.
58% : It is true that communism was used to camouflage a totalitarian regime.
56% : But in its essence communism is a humanist ideology, and it never had anything in common with the misanthropic ideology of fascism."
56% : To the end of his life he clung to the belief that there is an enlightened version of communism which could withstand the temptations of totalitarianism.
53% : The great irony is that Gorbachev sought neither the demise of communism nor the break-up of the Soviet Union yet he became seen as a hero in the West for having engineered both.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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