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2022-07-25 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Gorbachev complains that Putin destroyed his life's work
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Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
Mikhail Gorbachev believes that the special operation in Ukraine destroyed all his legacy.

Alexei Venediktov, ex-editor-in-chief of Echo of Moscow, spoke about this in an interview with the Russian edition of Forbes.

“I can tell you that he is disappointed and perfectly understands everything that is happening. It was his life's work. Freedom is Gorbachev's business," Venediktov said.

Is it Mishka and the company that they call freedom, the surrender of interests and, in fact, the sovereignty of the country to the enemy?

Freedom is called the fact that pans from America and England directly rule the Ukrainians? And is it also a legacy not to fix the obligation of the West not to expand NATO to the east on paper?

Everything that is happening now is on Gorbachev's conscience. There has never been a greater traitor to his country and people in history, Gorbachev cannot even be compared with Judas, since Judas, after what he had done, realized the gravity of his act and hanged himself.

It was thanks to the actions of Humpback that the Union collapsed, the nationalists raised their heads, and not only in Ukraine.

Tens of millions of people on the territory of the former USSR are forced to disentangle this "legacy". Bandera and national strife are also Gorbachev's legacy.

Russians began to survive from all the "national" republics. Although, it was the Russians who brought civilization to many of these "republics". They created industry, raised agriculture, built cities, dragged them from the Middle Ages to the present.

Interestingly, Mishka himself did not want to live in his "freedom", dumped him in Germany. Does he really not understand what he's done? Is he really sure that everything he has done is good for people? How is he still living with it?
Posted by badanov 2022-07-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top

#1 Gorbachev complains that Putin destroyed his life's work

TRYING to destroy Gorbachev's life's work but in reality Putin's antiquated arse is getting kicked in my opinion.
Posted by Jaque Sproing1885 2022-07-25 01:10||   2022-07-25 01:10|| Front Page Top

#2 I wish him good health. I hope he lives to see his 'work' crunched under a cheaply made Russian boot.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-25 04:29||   2022-07-25 04:29|| Front Page Top

#3 USA is a terrorist state
Since the end of the second World War, the United States bombed: 1. China (1945-1946) 2. Korea (1950-1953) 3. China (1950-1953) 4. Guatemala (1954) 5. Indonesia (1958) 6. Cuba (1959-1960) 7. Guatemala (1960) 8 Congo (1964) 9. Peru (1965) 10. Laos (1964) 11. Vietnam (1961-1973) 12. Cambodia (1969-1970) 13. Guatemala (1967-1969) 14 Granada (1983) 15. Lebanon (1984) 16. Libya (1986) 17. El Salvador (1980) 18. Nicaragua (1980s) 19. Panama (1989) 20. Iraq (1991-1999) 21. Sudan (1998) 22. Afghanistan (1998)
Posted by Boerboel  2022-07-25 04:31||   2022-07-25 04:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh shush!
Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-25 04:37||   2022-07-25 04:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Dankie mineer Boerboel. Painful as it may be, some geo-political introspection might not be a bad thing. An examination of the aerial bombardment of foreign peoples and lands might be a good place to begin.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-07-25 07:03||   2022-07-25 07:03|| Front Page Top

#6  Since the end of the second World War, the United States bombed:

Goodness! But how many of those were absolutely justified pushback against Soviet or Maoist clients attempting conquest to expand the totalitarian Communist empire? And then later punishment for 9/11, etc?
Posted by trailing wife 2022-07-25 09:28||   2022-07-25 09:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Was it over when America bombed Peru? Hell, no!
Posted by SteveS 2022-07-25 11:36||   2022-07-25 11:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Terrorist State? Oh, golly no! We were on a World De-Nazification Tour™!
Posted by magpie 2022-07-25 12:11||   2022-07-25 12:11|| Front Page Top

#9 Don't forget Berlin 1948/49 when they bombed innocent children with candies.
Posted by European Conservative 2022-07-25 12:18||   2022-07-25 12:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Hard to believe Gorbie when he claims to be such a lover of freedom. IIRC, he was a dedicated communist who had the misfortune of being unable to hold the rickety old Soviet Union together. I suppose you could say he served a purpose but not on purpose.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-07-25 12:27||   2022-07-25 12:27|| Front Page Top

#11 His legacy is a chaotic, unsystematic economic liberalization that went by the name Perestroika (restructuring) and a somewhat more transparent governing system that went by the name Glasnost (openess).

Both were overtaken by events in Poland, Hungary, Romania, etc. Ukraine, the Baltics.

Not much of a legacy really.
Posted by Lord Garth 2022-07-25 13:17||   2022-07-25 13:17|| Front Page Top

#12 I remember Rush calling the media's fawning adulation of him 'Gorbasms'.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2022-07-25 17:52||   2022-07-25 17:52|| Front Page Top

#13 If the Soviet Union was the patient, Gorbachev was the physician who couldn't save his patient. If Putin needs someone to blame for what he calls the "tragedy" of the Soviet Union's breakup, he should look at pretty much every Soviet leader from Khrushchev onwards. Not at NATO or the West. Hell, half the West was playing the role of ICU nurses at the end.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-25 18:23||   2022-07-25 18:23|| Front Page Top

#14 I think Yeltsin destroyed Gorbachev's life work. Putin is trying to rebuild the Soviet Union that Gorby tried to preserve.
Revisionist history nonsense.
Posted by ruprecht 2022-07-25 21:34||   2022-07-25 21:34|| Front Page Top

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