Interview: Gorbachev On Putin
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- Опубліковано 16 лют 2012
- With Russia's presidential elections just weeks away, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev spoke to RFE/RL's Russian Service in Moscow about prime minister and presidential hopeful Vladimir Putin's authoritarian tendencies and capacity to change.
I was privileged to meet Mr Gorbachev at a book signing at Harrods London in 1997. He was a true gentleman.
Gorbachev saved the world from nuclear war. He did more to world peace than all the other Russian leaders combined.
If only Mr. Gorbachev was still in power!!
The world would be a much safer place!!!
@@mimiduquette8786 Absolutely.. Putin is a danger to humanity.. Yeltsin was a drunk.. A complete disaster.
Or if he at least could have stayed in power for little longer and transform soviet union to more democratic direction without getting in to chaos that Russia ended up in 90's with Jeltsin.
Βρε το προδότη γυρίζει από εδώ και από εκεί για να δικαιολογήσει την προδοσια του την ανατροπη της ΕΣΣΔ προδότη θα έχεις την στάμπα της προδοσίας στο σώμα σου και δεν φεύγει με τίποτα γιατί είναι ποτισμένη με το αίμα των κομμουνιστών
I may not agree with everything he says, but I have the highest esteem for Mr. Gorbachev. He is a wise and good man.
What do you not agree with
What about putin
@@kimuei Putin is a disgusting human being, he can rot in hell.
How I miss him. I remember Gorbachev very well, just as I remember the cold war when I was growing up. Gorbachev was a sign of hope for the world.
And then the west gave russia putin.
@@NathanCroucher cia runs the world
@@mt_gox really, not the jews 🙄
he's still alive btw
By destroying his country right? Lol.
I miss this guy, the most level-headed of all the USSR/Russia leaders in my lifetime.
You mean the most naive and subservient US puppet who gave America all access to Russia,and weakened Russia
SOS from Russia: Goodwill people! Joe Biden betrayed Ukraine for he refuses to close the sky. Every day brings new victims. FORCE NATO to CLOSE the SKY OVER UKRAINE. This is the only way to stop Putin. Otherwise, you will be the next victim of his aggression! Putin is a WORLDWIDE CRIMINAL but don't be afraid of a nuclear strike from his side - he cannot do it alone, and the top militaries around him have families and want to live. It's just a threat on his part. He uses your fear to prevent military aid to Ukraine. BY NOT CLOSING the SKY OVER Ukraine NATO becomes an ACCOMPLICE of Putin's CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
Этот уравновешенный парень со своей уравновешенностью стал виновником распада сверхдержавы,что привело к большим потрясениям, бедствиям и трагедиям!
what about kruschev
@@KLLAVI_The_Skaven He was before my time.😉
He is a fantastic man, he did so much good for the world, he is a very intelligent person, its such a shame we all get older, I was in my youth when he got in power, I wish him a healthy life.
Yet he is despised by most Russians today. I saw him as the true hero who ended the Cold War, even though Americans think they won it.
@@markdouglas8073 Then most Americans are idiots. The Soviet Union collapsed because of its own dead weight and a 10 year misadventure in Afghanistan, among other things, the most basic of which is Communism is a death sentence for any economic growth.
A man who really wanted to serve his nation.
This guy BETRAYED his nation and 20 more nations who were supporting his nation.
By selling them into the hands of vulture capitalists who looted the country and plunged them into economic doom. Ya what a national servant of the people.
@@goshu7009 Betrayed his nation and 20 more nations? How?
@@zapador You see, During Soviet Times - Eastern Europe was united and that didnt happen for centuries :P This guy dismantles the Union - therefore people hate him.
@@goshu7009 Eastern Europe was United? Did you ever stopped to wonder if those countries wanted to be united under USSR? If it's made by force that doesn't mean union. We hated being a part of USSR!
People be dissin grobachcev but the man allowed free speech and allowed the other countries in the u.s.s.r to make their on path
Allowed?? Say that to 13 people who died in my country(peacefull protesters mind you) because we wanted to be fully indpendant from Soviet Union, he said himself that we cant leave, when we didnt care, and did it anyway sent troops from moscow to my country just to deny our right to be free...He is human garbage
@@Edvinas97 If he is garbage.....what is Putin today???
@@Edvinas97 What is your country ???????
@@BBBGGG9647 Ohh Putin is much better than Western leaders combined of course, especially Biden.
@@thanatosxiii 😆....sure in your dreams..... you must have a heart of gold if this is what you think of Poo Tin. 💩 also blind and deaf. Don't like US presedent either...
A Wise men. A MEN that deserve to have the PEACE award🙏
He actually won 1990 Nobel Peace Prize
He is just one man.
If Mr Gorbachev had remained in power the relationship with the west would be very different …The west let him down ..
We need this man back in power putin has completely destroyed ukraine and is arresting any protesting and not taking any responsibility I say overthrow putin leave ukrain independent and restor what's left of the ussr
Yes because of him Russia lost all his URSS member countries lol
@@labigashi8327 Every country who wants independence doesn't belong to anyone.
@@labigashi8327 They wanted to leave. Nothing to do with Gorbie
@@labigashi8327 Empires fall apart. Parts want to go in different directions.
We Germans are thankful to him, because he was the most decisive person to make the wall fall. It‘s a shame thatPutin destroyed the ideas of glasnost and perestroika.
well it did work at some certain but the oligarchs took advantage of that.... this is where Putin rises to power.
Did Gorbachev ever win the nobel peace prize? Because he should have done.
He did
@@nmgscp glad to hear it.
I am sure he did but if he did he got it for being the sucker to James Baker back in the 90s .
Gorbachev was lied too but was to late to do anything.
And Ielțin for being a drunk and the world laughing at him .
2 Suckers
To most Russians he was a sellout
@@galleon1968 Says who?
A tribute to the Soviet Union….he was a very articulate leader and understood the West.
Submitted to the West.
Submission to the West (which can be doubtful) or a straight up USSR civil war? What would you choose if you were him?
Unfortunately he didn't understand his own party apparatus. They partitioned the country to get him out of power.
by which you mean he allowed the West to bully him...it was precisely his blind trust of his U.S. counterparts that Russia is threatened by NATO today. He didn't get anything down in writing...just trusted their words..that they won't move one inch eastwards.
@@n661 I think he wanted long term peace and cooperation with the west….
Always liked Gorbachev the only Russian leader since the war to show any progressive forward looking thinking. Such a tragedy for the world that later leaders just want to turn back the clock to the stone age😞
It was YELTSIN who privatized everything. Gorbachev worked for peace boldly (far more than Reagan.), but US has acted recklessly afterward. but yeah, Gorbachev should have made 'official' agreement about not expanding NATO against Russia with US.
'America acted recklessly"?.. Seems I remember the early to mid 90s, America was Always Helping (💰💵💰💵💰) Russia ' Survive' the upcoming 'Winter'..
Gorbachev was a tool of the US, who placed him to do to Russia, what they have done or tried to do to every other country. Russia is lucky that they have Putin rather then naive Gorbachev or the drunkard Yeltsin.
@@bonanzatime knowing life in Russia during 90s. Maybe someone was helping us to die.
@@MetalRex101 America 'saved' Russia in WWII, AND America has given Russia billions and billions of dollars since the end of Soviet Union. It's not America's fault that Russian leaders are so corrupt they kill their own people. They've been doing that forever.
@@bonanzatime it was russia that saved your arse in WW2 not your pathetic army that lost vietnam, korea and afghanistan
He is such an extraordinary man. It is truly a shame that he was not voted back into power and that ultimately Putin came into power. Yeltsin supported Putin -- and there were some "deals" made between Putin and Yeltsin at the time. But Gorbachev is cut from a completely different cloth than his "successors" and I miss him so much on the world stage - he had so much to offer and many more productive years of life (span) - not terribly aged man at the time he stepped down. Had I had a son, I would have surely named him Mikhail after Gorbachev.
If you look at history. The rise of Russia is hated by the West. In case of Gorbachev, if the West love him, then there is problem there.
@@hoanglongchau120 you got to much history
@@sandro1017 Just point to the fact, bro. There are reasons for West's hate against Russia.
@@hoanglongchau120 Name them, friend. Other than Stalin and the millions of Russians he had executed...
@@c.a.savage5689 Do you think the Poles love Catherine the Great? or what did the West think about Aleksander II?
Great guy. Normal, modest, reasonable and decent. A true forward-thinker. Look at the animal in the Kremlin now. Just terrible how a nation can go so far backwards.
"Pride comes before a fall, but humility comes before honour."
From somewhere in the Bible, Proverbs, I think.
Animals don’t do evil things-only
human do that.
@@annebalderston2520 Fair point.
@@annebalderston2520
Not completely true. Chimps, closest relatives of humans have been proven to have sadistic tendencies and desire for revenge too.
Don't dare compare Putin to animals who are peaceful creatures. They kill for food only.
Gorbachev was the best leader that Russia ever had !!!
yup he could have plunged the world into ww3 but choose peace instead and not cling on to power/ego
Lithuania drove him out of their country without firing a single shot.
@@olympia5758 russia must cooperate with the west its the only way to have peace
@@olympia5758 you can’t only blame the west. The Soviet Union was collapsing within dude. It was inevitable.
@@kategoried7501 … only when he was sober 😂👍
He never intended communism to fall. He merely wanted some internal restructuring (perestroika and glasnost), but once he loosened the screws and set things in motion things spiralled out of control in a way he never intended. Now he's a hero in the west and the devil incarnate in Russia. 🤣
Mr President is a real Russian. He is the heir of Tolstoy’s thought of peace and the great ability to understand the psychology of the masses of Dostoyevsky.
The world needs Russia, not the autocratic and modernized version of USSR.
Mr. Gorbachev, please tell us how you feel today! I know you gave an interview about a year ago!
The greatest Russian leader and one of the most important statesman ever.
He is nobody in Mother Russia than just a West puppet
@@israeloluwadamilola6055 mother Russia is a murderous country. With an assassin as its leader. What count it is that worldwide Gorbachev made history.
Ma sei scemo o mangi i sassi? Gorbachev è responsabile per la miseria in cui ha gettato la popolazione russa con le sue privatizzazioni forzate e portate avanti a oltranza, è stato celebrato in questo modo giusto perché è stato un ottimo pupazzo dell'occidente.
BS just a traitor
@@Joker-lt7pf pathetic comment
Right side of couch looks pretty beat up.
i think mr gorbachev did all that damage
It was used in casting couch videos for years.
Whenever you see 'freedom' and 'liberty' in the name of a radio channel, you know that they have an agenda.
And C And M And A and N and B
@Commander Cody No one is saint
@Commander Cody what the fuck is wrong with you
@@CrafterSven he didn’t stutter, putin is a dictator
@@CrafterSven he is right
I hope we hear more from Gorbachev........I believe he was a great politician very popular and respected all over the world
He killed (by his direct orders) 13 peacefull protesters and injured many more in my country when it wanted its independance from Soviet union, in my eyes his hands are covered with blood, only maybe the west thinks he is great, all eastern europe hates him
@@Edvinas97 Is Gorbachev worse than Putin?
@@farzana6676 No Putin in my opinion is worse, and i held this opinion way before ukraine war, and what do you think?
@@Edvinas97 I don't know much about Gorbachev. He was before my time.
When I saw him rolling his thumbs together reminded me of my grandpa who was a WW2 veteran delivered messages to the partisan army since he wasn't old enough to fight.
Just last weekend I tended a conference where Geneva citizens, professors discussed Mr. Michail Gorbatcov. (I did not understand much - fortunately so... because this way it ended befor the weekend were over.)
I would like to see his comments on the situation today. Are they available?
Good morning, mister Gorbachev you are very intelgent man, i like normal Russian peoples, but no crazy Putin military establishment!!!! Russian soldiers go home, freedom for Ukraine peoples bay from Czech Republic 😄😄❤️❤️❤️❤️
For me Mikhail Gorbachev is a true hero, the man of the 20th Century. What a tragedy for Russia and the world that he was replaced by vastly lesser people like Yeltsin and Putin
Totally agree 👍
Yeltsin wasn't bad at all. The only 9 years in the whole history of Russia that were democratic.
Because the media was free while he was in power he is remembered as an alcoholic
But remembered by the people that do not know what he has done to Russia
You can just sense the respect and admiration he has for the protesters who didn't fight each other, didn't leave garbage behind, and weren't afraid of the freezing weather.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH
MR. GORBACHOV/ARCHANGEL OF
GLASNOST/PERESTROIKA AND PEACE
FOR YOUR COMMENTS
AND GREAT SERVICE FOR A BETTER WORLD
AND MANKIND AS SUCH.
Listening to Gorbachev and Gary Kasparov you realise they are great people than can be leaders of Russia who care. And Gorb makes it quite clear that Russia should do away with autocratic powers for the leader and maximum stay for a president and not allowing a leader to control the secret service and have a free press in Russia... 4 things Putin said no to..... He only then increased his grip taking TV stations and reeducating children at school and .. 51% of teenagers have no idea of the atrocities of Stalin and think he was " a strong war leader " ......... You think at times the USA might be going on too much about FREEDOM and USA is corrupt and then you look at Russia and Iran and North Korea and you realise what horrible governments are in play using the people ruling over them stealing money and privilege for themselves and power for some kind of vain glorious delusion limiting the opportunity and freedom of people The thing I love most about Gorb is he speaks from the heart with hope for his people at every turn. There is a humility and a strength and deep long term hope from him for the people of Russia...... And Putin has gone and ruined it all........ I wonder how he is feeling today after the invasion of Ukraine?
Despite how much bad they're Iran literally didn't want to be some puppy state much like Ukraine so how they're the bad guy?
Might have something to do with it being written on your channel.
Oh Gorbachev may not be true but I think Putin so Lucy for own country and giggles most good personality than Gorbachev but I propose a quality must have in Putin leader to think most all humanity in hole world Putin have this ability
Gorbachev was naive. He believed the West would be partner and play fair with Russia and keep their promise not to expand NATO to the east. Putin understood the game. Russia needs a strong and wise leader: Putin has both qualities. Western style "democracy" can wait or may be not needed everywhere. The most important thing is a person who cares for his country and people. Putin seems doing exactly these.
There was no promise, Gorbachev did admit it
U are deluded.
It is easy to be an amateur arm chair president is it not ?
A fool, is a better word to describe this delusional person. No wonder he ruined a great union.
While I understand your point, I think this can turn against people in the future. Not all leaders will be as smart as Putin, and power can easily rot a leader soul, specially in autocratic systems where there are no counter balances.
Gorbachev is great source of inspiration for a book character!
I don't think the full interview is just 3:49...and so it is not representative and misleading...could please post the full interview??
God how I miss this man!
When you hand your country over to Western bankers and capitalists, and then complain about the ramifications of said betrayal and their effects on the people
He saved us from the Soviet Union. God save President Gorbachev
Handing your country over is when trying to stop the stagnating Economy and try to modernise society,give People more Freedom, modernise the economy and focus on civilian technology because we laged behind the west just for it to be all disturbed by old conservative hardliners communist who tried to overthrow gorbachev and then yeltsin came and put the final nail in the coffin. Yep gorbachev is definitly a traitor and didnt try to save help our country🙄.....
When you enjoy the fruits of freedom. And then complain about the person who fought for it.
Nick, you should share a train cabin with Stalin. Train to Siberia perhaps.
@@BengalLancer when you say "freedom" so much yet dont know what it means. I dont know what planet you live on, but there aint much freedom on this one. welcome to Earth
@@Christian-ni5fl yeah he modernized it so much that life expectancy plummeted, unemployment exploded, protections for women and workers were decimated, quality of life disappeared, and ethnic and nationalistic conflicts rose. But you have "freedom" and capitalism now. A true paradise
Few Russians appreciated Gorbachev. Look at what kind of person leads Russia now
Good man ,
"He is a different person". A killer.
Gorbachev is a senior citizen and is not in politics anymore. Also while he was, his resume is pretty crappy. Catastrophic economic reforms of Soviet Union, and the disentigration of the same.
That is not the case. When he took over the Soviet economy was completely exhausted. Politically there were a lot of problems, corruption, discordination and inefficiency. He tried to liberalize the socialist disaster and autonomize power.
Obviously it didn't work, socialism is a failed system in itself. And the power of was concentrated in very few hands, that not even dead were going to leave. It was a system that had to fall. Gorbachev's virtue was to avoid nuclear war while that was happening. Which is no small thing.
yeltsin was the beginning cause by turning the economy into a more capability way with lifting price controls and nationwide privatilization and other economic reforms caused alot of problems for everyone
Total Nonsens. Why do you think western company s invest in Russia after russian economy was totally collapsed at the end of the 80 s ? Cause they believed in a peacefull russia. Western countries buy russian oil and gas, without that billions of money russia would have been out of money again very fast. The Problem is, and that s a problem of the russian society, that russians believe in "strong" leaders. We Germans made the same mistake in case of Hitler.
But those Leaders, and i mean those Oligarchs too, put the most of that money in their own pocket and so steal it from the russian people.Usmanov owns a yacht named DILBAR, which costs 800.000.000 Million dollars. Where do you think he got that money from ? Did he invent something or built a company like Bill Gates for example ? No, he steals it from the russian people like many other Oligarchs. And Putin allows it to built up his Power. The real economic Catastrophe to russia is coming now, wait one or two years after those sanctions. Russia is totally isolated worldwide, cause no Nation want to deal with a War criminal like Putin, who kills Cvilians, children,old people, who bombs a country back into the stonage. And for what ? To protect his people ? Does any other nation attack russia, bombing their cities, killing their People ? NO, THEY DIDN T ! Putin leads your country into a dictatorship without any free will, where everbody who say his opinon goes to jail. Gorbachev was, no he is a peaceful man who never would have send his army to kill his so named brothers in ukrain
When was this interview?
Gorbachev was not carefull for his homeland. His first Duty was to protect his citizens. He failed.
The cia rigged the election for this embarrassing clown
@@manifest_bot3162 Leave the poor dude alone and stfu
Yeah he let Russians eat Pizza Hut
You do not run the Russian mafia with free speech reforms.
Buff... Respect your elders and you can feel from this man why. Seems like his humanity and love for his people is at his core.
GRANDE PRESIDENTE MA SOPRATTUTTO GRANDE UOMO 👏🏼👏🏿👏🏽💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝
I respect this man , he is not a war monger, like B - - h, B - d - n, and you know the rest of the story like Paul Harvey use to say.
Why are there so few interviews with Gorbachev and why are they always short 3 -4 minutes? Is that really how long the interview ran or have significant parts been removed or censored.
A real gentleman, the George Washington of the Soviet Union.
Washington was the founder of USA, Gorby was the killer of USSR
Lenin was the George Washington of the Soviet Union, and we haven't seen the Gorbachev of the United States yet, but I understand what you mean: like Washington, Gorbachev was a strong moral character; modest, wise and good.
@@bolerobolero5668 This is what I wanted to say:-)
@@bolerobolero5668 The USSR was horrible.
@@yeah1326 so what?
How do you know if i live in the Western Hemisphere?
Deze President Gorbachev MOCHT ik altijd, zo vriendelijke man en met humor.
От Всего сердца желаю, за Весь честный трудовой народ СССР.
He’s a good man.
This guy is one of the great leaders.
❤️💖💝God bless you Mikhail Gorbachev 💝💖❤️we still love you. You love people in the world 👏👏👏
People blame this man for the fall of ussr. But in reality ussr had it coming with or without gorbachev. Ussr fall was onevitable.
Ты-то откуда знаешь, что было неизбежным? Он разрушил армию, экономику. А народ впал в беспробудную бедность. Зато США были этому очень и очень рады.
Yeah Mikhail Gorbachev you seriously need to be interviewed. 😡
@Aditya Chakrabarti if the ussr still existed it would have put China in its place
The BBC already interviewed him, watch on youtube don't worry if you're not from uk
@@indoroyale7848 Read up on history fam the USSR was falling appart. This man was a hero for tempting to liberalize a country which storically was always authoritarian.
@@amanwearingsuspenders7390 read. My comment again and notice the word "if"
@@indoroyale7848 I though you were blaming him for the liquidation of the USSR, many people blame him and consider him a traitor for doing something very brave. If that was not the case I am sorry and I hope you have a good day :)
Такое впечатление что ВВПутин считает что Россия существует только для него одного...как и люди...и отдельные граждане обязаны ему что то, например их жизнь...личную жизнь...
A great thinker and statesman.
I see Indians sending respect to this guy who wanted peace and was devastated about what is happening in ukraine
Reagan speech 1987 " come to this place , open the gate , tear down this Wall " Now hear this
Mr Gorbachev in east Berlin Okt ,1987 , the gate opened Dec 24 , 1988 -east Berlin Cardinal
goes to Koln , west Germany ! ,
On 9 - 11 - 1989 The Wall comes down !!! Truly Amazing ? Huh
On 9/11/1989 the worlds changes then 9/11/2001 the world reforms
why do they love so much the 9-11?whats wrong with this day?is it a cult?
@@MyMikey88 Don't forget the Chilean coup. 9-11-73.
If Putin was such a monster, this fellow would not be alive today.
Putin's not stupid.
He is no threat to Putin. He doesn't want power, nor does he openly speak against him.
неплохо вырвано из контекста :D
Other leaders should learn from him. His Perestroika is now etched in history books. He is one of the great leader of the 20th century along with Churchill, Roosvelt, Reagan and Gandhi.
How about Nelson Mandela of South Africa!?
I've always thought Mikhail Sergeyevich was one of the most intelligent, pragmatic men to have come to power in the USSR. Face it, for years we were terrified of some thugs in fur Ushankas coming to rape our women, trample our fields underfoot, and burn our churches. Mikhail Sergeyevich changed all that. He was and is a passionate man and above all, a real humanitarian. Stalin would have crushed protesters underfoot and sent entire extended families to the Gulags. Chernyenko, Andropov, and Brezhnev were all the same, staying in power by doing nothing.
I think Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev will go down in history who served the people, not the state, the workers, not the party.
I wish our own Senate had the same integrity and guts.
Спасибо, товарищ Михаил Сергеевич Горбачев!
After the death of Stalin,revisionists began to take over the management.Everything started falling apart and getting worse but still ın 70’s and in the beginning of 80’s Ussr was better off compared to other countries.When it comes to 80’s capitalists already took over the communist party and traitors like gorbachev yakovlev and yeltsin showed up and ruined everyting with their liberal policies.
You're a complete fool man. Go read his biography before making such assumptions. Without knowing history and how this incompetent pidoras came into power.
Sami balshoi vrag ruskava naroda. Pradal vsoo.
@@denizaksoy2475 So you wanna live in an oppressive and poor country? Gorbachev fixed russia
@@denizaksoy2475 Hahaha. Off to the gulag with you.
March 2022, this did NOT age well.
Gorbachev looks 90 years old in february 2012 before he turns 91 in march 2012
If this guy was in charge today the world would be a much safer place for EVERYONE, east and west would be no more than points on a compass.
Russians : Where the hell is this guy...
hi Live in Germany .''.true patriot''...left whole country to face concessive of his art work,..
@Maester Keeth it was his fault he was naive to think that the West wont expand NATO to the East and he was dumb enough to actually believe that the West would keep their promise
@Maester Keeth Gorbachev is seen as the biggest traitor among the russian people but to you it doesn't seem that way because maybe you have been brainwashed by western maybe but that's true he was naive to think that the West actually wanted to cooperate with Russia but he was dead wrong they just wanted to weaken the Soviet Union so they can spread "democracy" around the world by stealing oil from other countries and killing their leaders that don't bend to them like in Libya and Iraq for example , so i suggest to you to spend a bit more time learning not me because I know that it's hard to see the picture when you're inside the frame
With age comes wisdom this man seems to have some
Putin proves that is not the case.
This guy is the reason we did not have nuclear wars in 80s.
The wonder of Putin is old men can disagree and talk freely about it. Try doing that in Britain today.
No they can't, you will disappear.
A man with wisdom... Putin hear him out!
omg, the guy who destroyed the USSR, left a lot of conflicts to former USSR countries teaches Putin to politic...funny u know
Fuad Huseynov :Gorby didn't achieve 1% what Putin is doing for his country. He should zip his mouth and be forgotten forever.
At least he gave the soviet people some god damn freedom
@@smainebelhadi1193 Gorbachev is a great person, he saved the world by preventing a soviet civil war and ended the cold war
He didn't destroy USSR you know. A LOT of other people did.
His only flaw was that he was not brutal as Stalin and allowed his people various rights which ultimately was misused.
@サイレントボイス he defintly was a good president and prevented civil war. Bit he didnt do ahit about chernobly it was legasov and he hided lies qnd never told truth about chernobly and a lot of other things.
Your Right you know
I'd like to know from common citizens what living in Russia is like. This vintage politicians can't accept the fact Russia is changing for the good not thanks to them but to the courage of Mr Puting to handle curruption like a boss.He has outsmarted them big time.
Well said.
Google: 'Secret History Revealed - Putin Played Critical Role After The Pre-planned Collapse Of The USSSR - Vladimir Putin's Russia: Perfect Foil To The Anglo-American Axis And Their New World Order'
Putin is the corruption itself dude
Anybody can be a given USD 1 trillion as the US need to only print this amount as it is not supported by gold but mere strength of hegemony.
I was told that after ww2, U.S gave France something like 1billion dollar's as a loan, France asked for 1 billion dollar's worth of gold not currency,
U.S got serverly pissed at this. and offered them only currency.
Mr. Gorbachev left me expecting to hear something constructive but instead he left me with one critical hint that Putin is not the person for the job.
Anyone thrust into a situation to assume power the way Putin was and at a time when the Wolves- read the WEST here-were at the door and had already had the thieves and robbers lined up. Only a man of Putin's calibre could have saved Russia and come back within 20 - 25 years to regain the esteem of it's people instead of holding their heads bowed before the whole West for another century
Am surprised Gorbachev omitted to recognise this one aspect which was the most critical factor at that juncture.
Well.... Yes, but it came at the expense of the freedom of the everyday people. And this is naturally a concern for Gorbachev, since he's seen where this leads. He's one of the very few, maybe even the unique leader of the USSR who outlived that monstrosity, which eats its own leaders alive and drags their souls down.
Gorbachev has a certain kindness which helped him to remain somewhat preserved in a very dystopic state.
But he knows his limits, and the authoritarian regime has a life of its own, sometimes, which can force national leaders to do things they would rather not do: shed human blood.
@@zhouwu if Gorbachev did what Deng Xiaoping did, the Soviet Union would have survived
@@zhouwu all cool here in Russia, more freedom than ever, it was not freedom with Gorbachev, it was a dangerous anarchy
@@GlobalSouthObserver
Survived and what? Deng Xiaoping reformed, yes, and prolonged the life of a regime that is heading into a downwards spiral that has thus far kept up appearances, but for how long? And for his liberalisation of the Chinese economy, the students wanted new blood in government.... Which provoked the 1989 bloodshed.
@@pavelshnaps2345
For now. But the adversarial role Vladimir Putin has pitted your country and people against NATO is a ticking time bomb. You can forget about tomorrow, but tomorrow will not forget about you, and no amount of vodka can keep your tomorrow away.
gorbachev is a very astute man and very in touch with todays younger generation............perhaps he should lead the russian federation
He's 92 now, so I don't think he can.
Imagine if Gorbachev was elected president in the upcoming election
I say cause a revolution now overthrow putin and out gorbachev back in power
He was a Reform Communist. However he inherited a system already so corrupt and rusted that even the slightest push for reform toppled the whole thing.
It could be tried again, but properly, without the lasting nightmares of Stalin on the civilization on which it's enacted
+Conomoto Apologize Look, you're just wrong and I'm no friend of the yanks. It's an historical fact that Gorbi was stifled by the ultra-conservatives who supported Yeltsin. And he's the one who ruined your country. Just read some history books. It's not about America, fuck America, just for god's sake educate yourself about your own bloody country and stop trying your best to sound like a fucking American, Got it?
+Conomoto Apologize And you're just like the English who hate Thatcher, 'because they were there.' Or the Yanks who hate Obama. Reform is painful.
It's sad that so much suffering has happened in Russia, but Gorbi was certainly not the cause. Even if, even if what you believe were true and you are smarter than all historians and analysts and professionals and others who lived through Perestroika - it's impossible for one man to ruin a country. Impossible.
Your political system was corrupt, it's still corrupt and Gorbi tried to change it. This is the thanks he gets. It's the same for every politician - Churchill was voted out as soon as he'd saved England and won the war.
Why not try to find out why things 'got worse' under Gorbi - find out what political forces were at work - why did Yeltsin suddenly sweep to power unopposed? I mean, come on, man, think about it. Why did the apparatchiks turn against Gorbi and then support Yeltsin and then become capitalist oligarchs?
And why did the yanks refuse Gorbi's requests for aid? This is all freely available stuff - all filmed and available on the web.
The nationalist Russians who pour over these videos are right about one thing - America wants a weak Russia. America wants a weak everywhere and if you actually want to understand this check out 'Peter Hitchens - Why I Like Putin.'
Or perhaps TL;DR. It's your country.
Haha no one works for the US, they take advantage of the US. At least now I hear in the streets from average Americans "America first!" It is about time we use our power all to benefit ourselves. Fuck the rest of the world
Да, МС Горбачёв лидер положительных перемен, которые желал народ СССР, но корруптные элементы помешали ему воплотить реформы должным образом. Эти коррупционеры подставили его пустым прилавками, свергли и присвоили национальные рессурсы. Поэтому казна РФ не для народа.
omg he is still alive (91) I wonder if he still has the state of mind to do an interview.
Such a wise man and isn't it super interesting that he's alive? I saw many of his books and there was a movie, too (Meting Gorbachev). I wish to read and watch them someday (they're in English and I prefer consuming these kinds of knowledge in my mother tongue)
I would have light to meet that man
He was spot-on during this interview.
всё это создавалось искуственно, для развала, надеюсь ты то хоть это знаешь?
0:58 wtf? I've been to Sesto san Giovanni today
There was a leader who understood political etiquette.
In Stalin's time the USSR smashed fascism. In Gorbachov's time he ended the USSR and let Reagan (of all people) in.
The ussr was already dying
Stalin led an evil regime
Stalin killed Ukraine
@@shlokrathod8077 it started declining because it was far behind the west economically
@@shlokrathod8077 they achieved that over the the bodies of millions of innocents
Gorbachev was good but unfortunately did not last long a good shrewd politician who always acted accordingly
But all people also have their weaknesses. His was to be naive in his dealings with the west, his failure to slow down perestroika and failure to stand up to the bully Yeltsin 12 Billion dollars paid by Germany for the reuniting of east and west Germany also mysteriously went missing as soon as it was handed over to the Russians. Does Gorbachev ever explain how that happened and where the money is now. ?
A silly commen, Rush Limbaugh used to say that a map of the US was on Gorbachev's forehead. But, seriously.. I honor Gorbachev. When the Soviet Union was beginning to unrravel, and his people were telling him to stop all the people from moving to the west, Gorbachev did not do anything. He let them go.
The majority it seems don't grasp Gorbachev's purpose. He performed what is called, I believe, castling.
The value of Russian currency and the economy has crumbled under Putin. The world needs this man back
Ah yes so russia can crumble like the soviet union did under gorbachev? The west needs this man back... but surely not the rest of the world.
then let him be a leader in your country the Russians don't want him
The great USSR broke apart is because of this guy not worth mentioning his name
LMAO great? GREAT? Hahahahhahahahah, that is a funny joke.
What is great about USSR
Very underrated political mind. Even the Russian history will be kind to him.
As people age they aquire wisdom. That is a natural sequence of human nature.
He is a hero . Long live his legacy
Yeah for America not a Russia.
@@yobitchcantfindme5288 And for countries from warsaw pact ( Czech, Poland,...)
YEEESSS!
@@yobitchcantfindme5288 yeah im sure russia would love to live in a world were they have no freedom
@@justanotheranimeprofilepic how do you define freedom?
the biggest mistake of russian, was get rid of him, a GREAT MAN.
I'm not a Gorbachev-hater by any means, in fact I'm very grateful to him for bringing an end to the USSR. But we have to remember this was unintentional. His plan was to reform the USSR so it would be able to end its long, painful stagnation and survive, but his policies unleashed forces that ended up tearing it apart.
And clearly, as we've seen from Putin over the past ten years, he was wrong about Putin here too: he's absolutely unafraid to use violence against his own people.
I`d rather have the Soviet Union intact over the current Russia we see know. Gorbachev was naive, but he gave Russians freedom. Then Yeltsin came to power, and enabled Putin. Yeltsin was a corrupt drunk, and Putin is a dangerous Psychopath. I think Gorbachev was a very decent man, and one of the few Russian leaders who believed in freedom. I`d take Gorbachev over ANY other Russian leader. He is a very good man.
@@yellyman5483 true. Had he been younger, he should definitely lead the country AGAIN. It's a shame for such wise man to be overthrown
@@thuylinhnguyenly4945 Gorbachev was a fantastic man.
@@yellyman5483 Soviet Union intact vrs Russia. Don't say that in Poland, Cz, Sk or any of the old parts of the Warsaw Pact. You'd be beaten to to a pulp for your stupidity
He should make a podcast
in the end, a country leader(good or bad) is still a country... to be given due respect as a country leader...
Even someone like hitler?