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From Red Square to Hard Rock

April 8th, 2008 by Dave

You know your career’s heading downhill when you used to playing parliaments and congresses, but now you’re being booked into bingo halls and casinos. And not even Strip casinos:

Hard Rock Live - Event - Mikhail Gorbachev

At first I thought this was some kind of mistake, or my sleep-deprived brain was playing tricks on me. But no, the former boss of the Soviet Union–remember how well that turned out–is speaking at the Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood Hotel & Casino later this month. You can buy tickets here.

I can guarantee that when he first proposed glasnost and perestroika, Gorby never thought it would end up like this.

So who do you think opens for him? Yakov Smirnoff, maybe?

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David G. Schwartz

the die is cast

is the online home of David G. Schwartz, who writes extensively about Las Vegas, gambling, and history.

He's the Director of the Center for Gaming Research at UNLV and has a Ph.D. in United States history from UCLA. He's also taught a range of subjects, running the gamut from hospitality security to gambling history to writing creative non-fiction.

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