interesting one of the most important people in modern history is still alive and here to talk about it Thanks for likes everybody ;) RIP Gorbachev, a good man on the wrong team.
@@insidequest8574 why should he be killed? He brought democracy to the USSR in it Dieing days. He refused to use violence to preserve the Union and he peaceful gave up power. That sounds like quit a good leader to me. And dont say its because he is a Communist, not all Communist are bad I should know my brother is one and you no what? He loves Democracy more than anyone else I now. He is willing to die for democracy, I don't think that many these days would he willing to do that. Especially if they must fight there own government.
@@lordkenten4136 what if he should be killed for introducing democracy and leaving what they had? Do not assume things, that everyone loves democracy and that that is the only good. I have no opinion on Gorbachov myself, I find him a very interesting man. But people have entirely different views on life, philosophy and politics. It would be naive to immediately assume a "good" vs "bad" posture and talk about democracy in that way.
@@nazi0zombie Because Democracy is more than just a political system to me. It is a way of thinking and a way of living. I believe that the point of life is to enjoy it while you can. So democracy is the best form of government to do that. I also believe that all power should come from the people so I believe the system that gives the most power to the people is the one that I will support. In my opinion people who live in less democrtic countries are less happy and less productive over all. So in conclusion democracy is less of a ideology to me but more like a Religion real. The one absolute institution of all government you could say.
Only Russian speakers can hear that, but he talks in such a simple manner... Like an average Russian grandpa, simple man, not someone who had so much power
he looks like he has a bit of dementia. CC subtitles do not reveal that. but you can hear it if you are Russian. so yeah, he looks like a grandpa that just talking in order to feel himself alive. not a good stuff actually. shame on you, BBC.
@@dinok7630 not everyone. In my opinion, russian is more diverse that eng. So only russians speakers can hear it. Not even manner of speech but something else like... speech diversity may be
@Russian Occupant you can rot in hell dipshit he ended the iron curtain in europe which had caused Years of tyranny and suffering. My dad visited East Berlin before the wall came down and he said it was a miserable place. Empty shops, Stazi watching people just horrible.
It doesn't work in the real world unfortunately. You have a choice between bad and very bad. Sometimes you should take a gun in your arms to protect your interests. Sad but true.
@@somedudetm2743 yeah, u are right. Bad. But it isn't wrong. Sad but true. U should kill to be alive. It is a cruel world around. And everybody is part of. If you won't a war to be, you should lose smth in your life. Sad, doesn't that?
Not only that, he was the one most responsible for dissambling the Soviet Union. A name associated with, if not relegated to, history classes & books. Yet, he still walks among us like no other. It makes you think, that we as humans like to view important historic people as larger than life but they are most likely just like gorbachev, a normal person in an abnormal situation .
To many russian he is a traitor, communism wasn't working any more, He just let the system fall apart and let their countries to manage themselves with more freedom.
Rest in peace, last relic of the USSR is now gone. A person who was the only leader to give his people freedoms. We won’t forget you, rest easy comrade.
He gave "freedom", but took the bread... OK, I can go to Red Square and criticize the government, but what will it give me when my salary is 10 times less and I have nothing to eat?...
@@expertbrody9914 I'm not talking about the Stalinist USSR, but about the USSR of the 1950s-1980s. At this time, Soviet people lived well, with many social guarantees. Free education, medicine, apartments. There was no hunger and lack of food. There are no homeless and unemployed... We lost all this in the late 1980s. In the 90s there was widespread corruption, crime, poverty, unemployment, people literally ate newspapers to survive. Now go to bed, and before going to bed, watch a documentary about "10,000,000 victims of Stalin's Gulag", Western child 😂
He is in awe of the person who is in front of him. We also do that in my family sometimes while somebody we respect and admire is talking, not because we find their words funny or amusing 🙂
He may be blamed for the downfall of the Ussr, but he gave what the people wanted, glasnost and perestroika and new cultures in the late 1980’s, and he will never be forgotten for ending the Cold War and valuing ideals rather than absolute power. Rest in piece, Gorbachev, you have made a mark in history.
@@ericfernandez9 You underestimate the choice Soviet Union, even a husk of its former self, can make. It doesn't have to benefit its people, or even humanity, but leader such as Stalin will turn to one final war instead, one to take over enough economic resource to extend survival of the Union.
@@bigverybadtom I didn't say they will win lol, but Soviet Union at the time still have the organizational strength to do one final mass mobilization before going kaput, and many Soviet diehard might opt for that dangerous bet instead, due to their belief in Communism itself over people of Soviet Union.
@@ZaleEgor So the man who ensured that the USSR didin't splinter into a million bloody pieces and plummet eastern europe into decades of war and senseless violence, not to mention the last leader of the arguably largest country of the 20th century, is not noteworthy enough to be in a history book? Ok then.
@@ZaleEgor answer me this: What did you think would have happened If Gorbachev decided to extend the Soviet Union into a techno-informational age the country was NOT prepared for? What would have happened if he had decided to keep eastern berlin a soviet satelite state by brute force, having to silence any further descent from the balcanic countries that were as allways a powder keg waiting for a spark? Could the USSR have hold on for a couple more decades? Maybe. Would It do anything other than slowly self-implode into irrelevance? Hell no If you need an example of this, take a closer look at Post-maoist China
Egor Zaleskis I'm sorry, im not really informed well in this caption, but i can tell you alot about nazis. Well but this sounds not very nice to me! I'm sorry bro!
My brain: "Okay let's get some work done!" _1.5 hours later_ My brain: "Yeah, let's watch the former soviet leader mikhail gorbachev full interview - bbc news"
My dad's favorite leader who lived in a remote village of southern part of India. He always used to get emotional and cried for this great man...I am in 60s now... wondering how this great man inspired a man from a tiny village of India... legends live forever. Rest in Peace Mr. Mikhail Gorbachev.
It’s unfortunate that a man like Gorbachev had to pass, the fact that he allowed the Eastern Bloc to go it’s own way, saved millions of lives. History will never forget him.
saved? In the recent history of Russia there are only two demographic holes - WW2 and Collapse of USSR. Thanks to this man during the 90’s Russian people suffered so much, that losses can be compared with losses in WW2. And there are still much terrible things happening due to this man, for example - conflict in Ukraine. There is no wondering why tons of people in Russia call him a traitor - because they all have suffered much, and still they are suffering
It's unfortunate that President Clinton was not receptive to the request of Vladimir Putin to join NATO. Russia renounced communism and encouraged Orthodox Christianity. Makes you wonder that if we had granted his request that Russia (by then a part of the European Union), would have stayed out of Crimea and Ukraine. Blessed are the peace makers. It's still not too late. Give peace a chance.
@@danilaagapitov1627 Well we can't have peace. What would happen to the military industrial complex and the 'relations' they have with their minions in business and government. American jobs and working infrastructure would give the proletariate the idea that they were actually in charge.
I _love_ that commercial! The young guy and the older guy are having a big "Gorbachev Rocks! vs Gorbachev Sucks!" argument, and the old lady just jumps in and shuts them both down by stating the fact that, without Gorbachev, there wouldn't be a Pizza Hut in Moscow for them to sit in, eat pizza and argue about whether Gorbachev rocked or sucked. So I guess that the old lady proved the young guy right. But I still say that _she_ was the one who won the argument. :-D
Thats bullshit many communist countries like laos , vietnam and cuba adopted the chinese free market system eventually ussr would too ... She won a scripted argument but not a real one
@@syntheticdawn4992 Well, when Laos, Vietnam and Cuba come out with _their own_ Pizza Hut commercials, we can comment on _those_ commercials and how close to reality they skirt. But for now, Russia stands alone on the ex-Communist Pizza Hut heap. Long may the Russian Hut reign!
Fun fact: Gorbachev is the only Soviet Leader to be born in the Soviet Union and not the Russian Empire Edit: honestly not surprised people are arguing in the replies lol
Safak Sahin When I was a kid I used to think a lizard had spat on his head or perhaps an adult pisstaker from my family might have told me that but I swear that was what I thought whenever he appeared on tv.
Some other Turkish kids like Şafak and me used to think that UN trucks with huge white U and N letters upon them were carrying flour. Un is flour in Turkish.
@@muverrih-imaderzad3478 When finally Gorbachev's perestroika succided in Bulgaria in 89 my father had a nervous break down, that I remember as it was yesterday.
I feel bad for him, all his effort of making sure there’s no war was deteriorate until his last breath Rest In Peace, Mikhail Gorbachev, May your dream come true soon
Well yeah, but not many understand how it was actually Brezhnevs fault that ussr collapsed. Sure people loved living under his rule but he made collossal mistake by not doing any sorts of reforms.
@@firsargentum5920 I don't think the people who call Gorbachev a traitor are necessarily bots. After all, Russians weren't better off after he left office.
Yes. But remember..... he was 20 years younger than Regan at that time. Still - amazing that he is still around. And amazing to listen to him speak. I don't like the comment he made about America dropping the bombs on Japan. But I understand why he might say that. This is an amazing little piece of history - this interview.
@@jimmyz2098 did America not drop 2 atomic bombs and killed hundreds of thousands of INNOCENT people in Japan? Why do you not like his comment 😂 did it hurt your amurican ego?
I searched him up a few months ago. I was shocked to find out he was still alive. This man has lived more than 3 decades since he was "removed" from power.
Be loved in foreign and past enemies but hated by mort of Russian people who he originally should served, unfortunately. He fail to prove that Russian people can keep wealth, dignity after political reform brings more freedom. Partially made today’s more aggressive Russian. But still hoping him Rest In Peace
Rip Mikhail Gorbachev. You are a legend and saved us from world war 3. You are got how our world is today if it wasnt for you we wouldnt be alive. You are the hero of mankind and we will never stop thanking you for what you did
He didn’t save us from a world war, it was pretty unlikely almost no matter which politician would be in charge instead of him. But he did give his people liberties and cut down on the killing.
He was ANYTHING BUT up front. Everything he said about Putin (though he was too afraid to even mention him by name--even commenting on the fact that he wasn't mentioning him) was indirect, and even that tiny indirect criticism was followed up with ridiculous excuses for Putin clinging to power: "I hear on the news [state-controlled news!] that the people still want him to stay on...and finish the job." And ONE THING IS CLEAR: He must have ruled out from the beginning answering any questions on Putin's ANNEXATION of CRIMEA!
@@christopherjohnson3464 You’re partially right, a lot of other Russians will say he was a traitor and he collapsed the Union. I think that this wasn’t his intention, but the fact that he doesn’t live in Russia now says quite a bit. He might have had good intentions and actually done something about the ailing country, but glorifying him definitely isn’t right. Edit: I made a mistake in my comment, he lives in a dacha outside moscow nowadays but he left for GB after the fall of the USSR.
@@dauletshynybaev I would say good. He seems to have cared for what his people wanted, avoided war and peacefully dissolved the Soviet Union. As far as I know.
Unreal Railway 1 peacefully? Read some information from Soviet Union, it says that lots of countries didn’t even want to leave Soviet Union, like Kazakhstan, Belarus, and lots of others (you can check it). People was killed, a lot of peasants didn’t have any money after that, and crime rate went up, one time ruble was more expensive then dollar, but after G.K.CH.P. everything went wrong. Countries was pushed to leave. So maybe he wanted everything to be good, but he couldn’t hold such a big country in his hands, which made it collapse
@@blackpaint9093 wasn't there a coup though that instigated the federated republics to declare independance in order to avoid the chaos of a possible civil war?
Yeah, thanks to his reforms Russia was a real hell in the 90s. Thanks to him, nationalism began to flourish in the republics, which was quite local under previous rulers. Thanks to him Russia lost 10m people. Thanks to him, the Russian economy has experienced almost the largest regression in history and is now supported by the remnants of the Soviet economy. Not least because of him, Chechnya rose up and this bloody and senseless slaughter began. Thanks to HIS reforms, an oligarchy was established in Russia. Thanks to HIM, appeared many millionaires who robbed the country in the 90s. Yeah, he really listened people.
@@fyodorkojevin5756 You know that the occupied republics aren't and never were Russia. He didn't lost people, he gave what the countries wanted and had until the moment Stalin came in and turned everything to shit. And now Russia is occuping lands yet again. I hope that Russia suffers, but I'm also very sad about the Russian people that don't deserve this. :(
his intentions from all the way back in the late 80s to 90s, when he began democratising the Union and introducing self-determination, still ring out through his words. I respect him for holding these values for all these years. It’s difficult for a politician to know what they want for a country and hold true to that.
@Sainayoro no he was not the brejnev started the fall of the solvent union and gorbochov had a canse to restart everything but he just killed it forever
@@allenk6373 exactly...he did what was right, everybody knows you can't lie ppl 24/7 and force them, limit them and so on in such times, he did what was right, let the ppl to decide what they want, good or bad is their call, if i want to eat pizza i should be right to do so even if is not healthy
Να λες τα πράγματα με το όνομα τούς Η Ναζιστική Γερμανία εισέβαλε στην Σοβιετικη ένωση και μετά. Πήγαινε η Σοβιετικη ένωση εκεί. Νάτο λες όπως είναι όχι να αλλάζουμε την ιστορία.
Rest in Peace, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev. You were the pacifist hero the world needed. Your reforms and your impact will never be forgotten. History will remember you, and I will forever thank you for being my pacifist hero. Thank you, and rest easy. You deserve it.
Most leaders are more interesting in person. And AFTER they played their part. It means that they can be more honest. Watch the death of Yugoslavia - it has the same spirit as this interview.
He would tell you how to destroy one of the most powerful country in the world. It's the best he can do, oh actually saying bullshit for money is his hobby.
@@restyecp most powerful Country? Yes in that logic disgusting Kim Jong eun is one of them. The most powerful is the country the most people want to immigrate and want to live.
When you have 1 nuclear bomb, you are the axis of terror; when you have 10 nuclear bombs, you are the factor of regional instability; when you have 100 nuclear bombs, you are an important force to maintain regional stability; When you have 500 nuclear bombs, you are an important participant in the international order; when you have more than 2,000 nuclear bombs, you are the cornerstone of global peace and stability.
@Britannic hayyomatt Your thought with nukes is right but your example is shit. Chemical weapons especially gas was way too expensive and had a bad use/death ratio. Normal weapons were more cost and kill effective that's the only reason for not using them. Furthermore you could argue that Hitler feared/detested chemical weapons because he experienced them on himself in WW1.
@Britannic hayyomatt Exactly disabling the enemy is the goal. With poison gas you do that to you and the enemy. Back in WW1 there were multible occasions where your own attack was carries back to your trenches by the wind or the gas accumulated in the area for 1-2 days. Furthermore gas has a shelf life like everything else. You can't store it infinitely therefore it has to be replaced regularly aswell as stored in a special way. (shelf life: weeks in normal canisters and temperature and months in very cold conditions). All in all it's a way more costly endeavour. To cripple men shells are therfore more price efficient than poison gas. And yes they were concerned that the allies would use chemical weapons as retaliation but the production overall just doubled in consequence because again they knew that it is way to expensive. Moreover till the end of the war in 1945 45 million people's gas masks were produced (almost the same amount as the population of Britannia)
@@МэкуйанскиЖэларёв Sorry for my English, I dont know how in France with human rights, but I think you have better rights than we have in Russia, I have not thoroughly compared so dont be angry. Putin has been in power for 20 years and if at the beginning many but not everyone thought that this was a fresh breath of air, now it is an authoritarian regime where only people loyal to the government are needed and they simply get rid of unwanted people (they put them in prisons for fabricated cases, reproach for psychiatric hospital, etc.), so that many, like me, hate Putin and his friends. someone said that "while the whole world is developing according to Huxley, Russia is following Orwell."
@KarmaKahn ok, heres a better translation - "Its in constitution, we intended it this way, but sometimes, when Country goes through changes, it could be that none is ready to take on... Putin inherited chaos and he resolved this chaos! Media says, he still needs time, I am for law, but I'm for people's opinion above all" Its very sad, but IMO entire world is like one Orwell novel. Perhaps, Illusion of freedom is even worse than lack of it, for oppression can be seen and measured but if your freedom is nothing but a dream, there might be no escape
Wilhelm der Dritte I hope I may share my point of view with you. Problem of Russia has become complex because Putin made all branches of government listen to him, even if it goes against the law and the Constitution. You might know the “State Duma” what is analog of National Assembly in France. So this Duma is just a circus. They actually make nothing. We call 'em “system opposition” cos they exist to be like a picture on TV. Clever people in Russia know that there is a gang of oligarchs who steal oil. Putin is in there. Russia has enormous number of problems. Unfortunately, with corrupted system becomes impossible to make any changes. It is even worse, than the Soviet Union in 70-80’s because people could live. Somehow, but could. What happens now? People live in those old soviet houses and try to struggle. Russia is flying into the abyss.
Wilhelm der Dritte Gotcha, thank you very much for your polite and pleasant words about Russia. We’ll see in the future what’s gonna be. I believe in the nice future of France too! Greetings from Russia 🇷🇺. Vive la France 🇫🇷 :)
Well since the USSR is long gone and he has distanced himself from the Russian government (not politics in general) they can get a reliable opinion about the current World Stage, however if some american or european who watches the interview believes its just full of poo poo because he is an ex-commie then thats fine still, we cant force them out of that brainwashed mindset
@Lance Penguin I don't see the validity of comparing a random US citizen to the head of state of the Soviet Union in terms of "are we going to check if he's alive?". Talk about whataboutism.
What does "heartbreaking" mean? If you love Gorbachev, then you should be happy for him, because before his death he was once again convinced of the success of his policy.
@@billclinton3862 not necessarily, smartass just means you're creative with your words and like to humor people. At least that's the way I always took it. So clever clogs would come close.
@@hroarrhrogarhalfdanssonafs9414 Imagine comparing Gorbachev to Hitler... Think you fell down a flight of stairs head first before writing that, didn't you?
I was recently wondering what happened to MG and am surprised with how sad I am at his passing. He seems a complicated figure, in many ways a visionary. It’s unfortunate that the people he resided over didn’t prosper following the breakup of the Soviet Union, and so they don’t see him as someone who changed the world for the better. I hope the time is coming when the world will again see leaders who share a vision for global wellbeing and work together to that end. Thank you Mikhail Gorbachev for letting the walls get torn down.
Common people in Russia would have followed him.But the biggest problem in that communist Russia,were the soviet leaders(just like today).MG couldn't deal with them because they didn't want to lose their privilegies.But when you ask for the one to blame people only say it was Gorbachov's fault,as if he was kind od Superman able to do everything by himself...Russians still don't realize the big loss they have losing him.And not only russians...
LFSG Is it really that? Perhaps he is one of a few men who held great and terrible powers and it actually grieves him to remember his people’s anguish and loss of WWII. Regards...
@@bh2o Man do you even know what you are talking about, do you even know at which period Gotbatchev became General Secretary of the Communist Party, and when he became President of the Soviet Union? You're talking absolute nonsense and comparing the end of the 80s-90s in USSR to the 50s before Stalin died, as if it was the same for 40 years. Gorbatchev was the president who gave to his people the most "freedom" as we call it in the west, and who opened his country to the world.
@@malaha84 Because the autocratic fascists murder all political opposition. Remember their names, Anna Politkovskaya, Alexander Litvinenko, Sergei Magnitsky, Paul Klebnikov, Sergei Yushenkov, Natalia Estemirova, Alexander Perepilichnyy, Boris Berezovsky, Sergei, Yulia SkripalBoris Nemtsov, Denis Voronenkov, Stanislav Markelov And Anastasia Baburova
Then have him repeat “This is the former soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev of the former Soviet Union” about 10 times, just to confirm that it is in fact the former soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev of the former Soviet Union.
@@wederMaxim The Soviet and Russian peoples suffered under all their leaders. Russia is a country that has been perpetually exploited, betrayed, and abused by its own leaders. At least Gorbachev tried to make things better.
@@wederMaxim Lenin: Red Terror (1918-1922), honest socialists, SRs and Mensheviks, were executed for opposing Bolshevik policies Stalin: Holodomor (1932-33), poor policies led to needless amount of starvation Stalin: Great Purge of 1937 and subsequent purges led to thousands of loyal communists being executed, including a significant amount of Red Army officers (weakening the Red Army before the invasion by Germany) Stalin: Russification policies and suppression of nationalities other than Russian and Georgian led to suffering and resentment of Russia and the USSR (contributed to the USSR's weakness later on and exploited during the collapse of the USSR) Khrushchev and successors: Censorship led to the repression of free speech that criticized the government
@@porsche911sbs Lenin did everything right. To hell with the White Guard fascists. The Holodomor is a common Ukrainian propaganda. About Stalin's purges: there is such a liberal historian (used to be a liberal) Viktor Nikolaevich Zemskov, who instead of writing books about how Stalin eats babies, did a terrible thing - got into the archives. After that, he wrote a book with the stupid title "Stalin and the People, why the people did not rise up," where he made terrible conclusions that over 30 years of bloody Stalinism, no more than 1.5 percent of the population suffered from the terrible Stalinist repressions. Freedom of speech is complete bullshit. She was nowhere and never will be. I can't say anything about Russification. This is the last thing liberals remember when they lie about Stalin, so I've never looked for anything on this topic.
I personally met Gorbachef in 1991 in Ottawa, Canada. We spoke for ten minutes. One best human being I have ever met. Kharasho commrade! Salis Omar PhD,
@@HogarJr I have a doctorate degree with the thesis on Soviet adventure in Afghanistan. I have read more than 200 books on the subject with douzens about Gorbachev. I have studied everything and anything about him. The ten minutes meeting with him was an icing on the cake. Is that enough for you Hogar?
Gorbachev IS NOT a person who would tell truth, he destroyed USSR by being president or whatever. If you want true story go to the interner and search USSR 1985
@@fyodorkojevin5756 shame on you! Gorbachev is the one who finished the cold war. People with your mindset will cause war and death. Dude, the Soviet Union has done many bad things over decades just like many other superpowers and (America), but sometimes even worse (Afghanistan invasion, Korean war , Vietnam )where both was included and it nearly turned out into a big atomic war. Gorbachev was an intelligent man who saw it would just cause millions of deaths again on both sides and decided to stop it, which was absolutely the right decision. Imagine the atomic war between USA and UDSSR there would still today be the half world full of atomic stuff and the planet would be nearly destroyed. Be glad someone like him existed!
@@fyodorkojevin5756 Why? Without his glasnost and perestroika, you are not even allowed to have a freedom of speech. You would be right modern China like now. He was the reason why many countries was able to retained their sovereignty.
What's funny about Gorbachev is that he actually outlasted the USSR. The USSR lasted from 1922 to 1991 which is 69 years. Gorbachev was born in 1931 and is still alive at 90 years of age. Edit: doesn’t matter if it was formed in 1917,1922 or even 1903. His age will still be older than all of them. RIP Gorbachev, the world salutes your efforts.
One of the most legendary figures of the 20th Century for sure! With his birthmark, Gorbachev became the portrait for diplomacy, cooperation, and world peace. RIP
@@redireland3006 Just because people do bad things doesn't mean they aren't good people. Without Churchill, democracy as we know it would no longer exist, Hitler would have won. I don't condone his racism, but he good far outweighted his bad.
*Tondo* You’d be surprised. It’s possibly my favorite video to ask people if they’ve seen before so that I can show them if they haven’t. It’s always a hoot
He was not trying, his main problem was fact that he did not actually know what to do, he tried to make some reforms, but then he realized that he do not understand what to do and how to do. But instead of being honest to say it and leave the post of leader, he was just sitting silent and letting all the shit around to happen. This one man was more dangerous for whole Socialistic Bloc than whole NATO. He betrayed all the leaders of Bloc, such as Honecker, he betrayed all the Eastern Germans who still feel themselves as foreigners in their own country, he just ruined what people was building for 70 years. In interview to Russian news he was saying that he is very sorry about how all this happened, and that dissolution of USSR is his main fail in whole life. But nothing can be changed after it happened, he can be billion times sorry, but fact that when he had opportunity to do just everything, he decided to actually do nothing, and killed the system from the inside.
@@denis1049 thing is everybody wanted freedom. East Germans also helped take the wall down. Every country that became independant was happy, and almost instantly threw away communism.
@@felaxii, freedom, you say? Go and read news about Germany, when Merkel said that emigrants should feel themselves at Germany as at their home, East Germans said "Maybe you will make us feel as at home ,to start?" 30 years after unification have passed, whole industry of DDR have died, last leader of DDR are living now with pension lover than cleaners have, all the conditions in post-DDR are lover than in Western Germany, and you are speaking of so-called liberation. Man, when countries of Soviet Bloc leaving Warsaw Pact only to join NATO and become satellites of USA and Western Europe, that is not liberation, it is just changing of the side. But there is still difference in before and after: in Socialistic bloc this countries had better conditions, but in EU they are always will be as secondary countries. EU ruined economic in such countries as Hungary, Poland, Romania, Czechia, DDR, and now they are living a way more bad than 30 years ago. In Soviet Bloc Hungary was a country with a strong agriculture, one of the biggest in Europe engineering and grand electronics manufacturing industry. Now whole Hungarian industry are dead, agriculture also dying because EU not allow Hungary to produce goods EU does not want it to produce, and from a strong country with top conditions Hungary now became one of the poorest country in Europe and it thinking about leaving EU. Such a great liberation, you know.
@@denis1049 Don't waste your tongue with them friend. They don't know what socialism and communism are. Only those who live there know the impact of the collapse of the Soviet Union. A great country stolen by several shameless people like Boris Yeltsin . Soviet citizens were betrayed. Even today i still wonder why Mikhail Gorbachev allow this happen. Being a Chinese. i understand you. Countries that believe in Western lies now just lives in hell. just look at Ukraine and Former Yugoslavia countries.
@@Onattttt Then you were born to be exploited by Capitalism. just Remind you. before First International and Haymarket massacre. Labor works almost 14 hours a day. six days a week. and no Labour law protects them.
Just gonna appreciate the interviewer’s fluency in Russian. For a British guy his speech is great. Yeah, he’s got a little accent, but overall his construction of sentences, vocabulary and etc. is amazing
He is a important figure in the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. The only soviet leader that realized communist closed Market economy doesnt work well.
In my opinion the humblest statesman you'll ever see. Such an honest perspective from a man who only wanted World peace. May God bless him and his efforts in making the world a safer place. Mr Mikhail Gorbachev, a man of peace and understanding.
Am I the only one who saw some fear and hesitancy when he was talking about Putin? It might just be me projecting my own thoughts but the whole atmosphere felt so tense when he started talking about him.
Одна из самых противоречивых личностей в истории России. Сколько бы не было разговоров, я считаю что он сделал больше и хотел сделать намного больше для людей чем тот же Ельцин. К сожалению не все планы свершились. Думаю если бы обстоятельства сложились в его пользу, то мы бы жили не на обломках СССР, а в настоящей России- наследнице СССР. Покойтесь с миром Первый и Последний президент СССР- Михаил Горбачёв!
Dominik Knežević Not to mention the majority of USSR citizens said that they wanted the union to continue but he dissolved it for his own personal gain anyway.
@Dominik Knežević he did cuz he was a spineless leader and a puppet of the west. But I'm glad that Germany reunited. The fall of the USSR had positive consequences.
he doesn't have to. he got plenty of experience with former superpowers destroying themselves through their own stupidity already. maybe they'll ask his advice when they finally put Britain out of it's long overdue misery.
Their tone changes as soon as they start talking about Putin, though. He starts thinking about his words way more, and pauses the break the tension with a dry joke O_O
Listen to what he said instead of being like all the sheep you think he's scared of Putin. He chose his words carefully because he knows how important Putin is right now.
@@smartgenes1 You just prove my point even further dipshit. Also on a side note calling someone "sheep" doesn't change the fact that you're 83 iq at best :p
a leader that sold his country and people for the enrichment of capitalists. Undoing the successes of the revolution on which the soviet union was founded on
interesting one of the most important people in modern history is still alive and here to talk about it
Thanks for likes everybody ;)
RIP Gorbachev, a good man on the wrong team.
@@insidequest8574 why should he be killed? He brought democracy to the USSR in it Dieing days. He refused to use violence to preserve the Union and he peaceful gave up power. That sounds like quit a good leader to me. And dont say its because he is a Communist, not all Communist are bad I should know my brother is one and you no what? He loves Democracy more than anyone else I now. He is willing to die for democracy, I don't think that many these days would he willing to do that. Especially if they must fight there own government.
@@lordkenten4136 what if he should be killed for introducing democracy and leaving what they had? Do not assume things, that everyone loves democracy and that that is the only good. I have no opinion on Gorbachov myself, I find him a very interesting man. But people have entirely different views on life, philosophy and politics. It would be naive to immediately assume a "good" vs "bad" posture and talk about democracy in that way.
@@nazi0zombie Democracy is the one thing I will not compromise on. If someone doesn't believe in democracy then I have no time for them.
@@lordkenten4136 Why is that?
@@nazi0zombie Because Democracy is more than just a political system to me. It is a way of thinking and a way of living. I believe that the point of life is to enjoy it while you can. So democracy is the best form of government to do that. I also believe that all power should come from the people so I believe the system that gives the most power to the people is the one that I will support. In my opinion people who live in less democrtic countries are less happy and less productive over all. So in conclusion democracy is less of a ideology to me but more like a Religion real. The one absolute institution of all government you could say.
Only Russian speakers can hear that, but he talks in such a simple manner... Like an average Russian grandpa, simple man, not someone who had so much power
Most if not all Slavic people can hear it
@@monarch9522 really didn't expect you here
потому что он безграмотный
he looks like he has a bit of dementia. CC subtitles do not reveal that. but you can hear it if you are Russian. so yeah, he looks like a grandpa that just talking in order to feel himself alive. not a good stuff actually. shame on you, BBC.
@@dinok7630 not everyone. In my opinion, russian is more diverse that eng. So only russians speakers can hear it. Not even manner of speech but something else like... speech diversity may be
RandomFact: Mikhail Gorbachev was the only leader of the USSR who was actually born in the USSR.
@@fabribeijing Naw, in this case the USSR. All other Soviet leaders were born in the Russian Empire.
Lol
Ronnie Jones what does the bolsheviks being “Judaic” have anything to do with the price of fish. And I’m very certain banks wouldn’t fund communism.
fabribeijing no the others were born during the rule of the Russian empire, he was born under the USSR
Ronnie Jones .
Rest in peace, Mikhail Gorbachev.
1931-2022
The man who altered the course of history forever.
The poor USSR president since 1985 until 1991.
@@PffingAlexeyPetrov REST IN SHIT GORBACHEV
@Russian Occupant 🤓
@Russian Occupant you can rot in hell dipshit he ended the iron curtain in europe which had caused Years of tyranny and suffering. My dad visited East Berlin before the wall came down and he said it was a miserable place. Empty shops, Stazi watching people just horrible.
@Russian Occupant
Amen!
"just make sure there's no war". cannot agree more.
It doesn't work in the real world unfortunately. You have a choice between bad and very bad. Sometimes you should take a gun in your arms to protect your interests. Sad but true.
@@rabiddios thats a bad excuse
@@somedudetm2743 yeah, u are right. Bad. But it isn't wrong. Sad but true. U should kill to be alive. It is a cruel world around. And everybody is part of. If you won't a war to be, you should lose smth in your life. Sad, doesn't that?
I think that the Russians really feared that all of those provocations from both sides would turn the cold war hot
@@joseffliegl4167 nobody wants a war. But everybody knows that it will be. If you want peace prepare for war.
strange how this guy was once the leader of the soviet union and now he speaks to the camera like a normal bloke.
Not only that, he was the one most responsible for dissambling the Soviet Union. A name associated with, if not relegated to, history classes & books. Yet, he still walks among us like no other. It makes you think, that we as humans like to view important historic people as larger than life but they are most likely just like gorbachev, a normal person in an abnormal situation .
@@slavenskazajednica7912 i'm guessing you were never alive under the USSR? or witnessed your family torn apart by stalin?
To many russian he is a traitor, communism wasn't working any more, He just let the system fall apart and let their countries to manage themselves with more freedom.
@@slavenskazajednica7912 Oh pls, spare us the bullshit.
SC98 oh, but he certainly did very little to stop them.
Ain't no fun getting old. The only way I recognize this guy, is by the mark on his head.
Looks pretty good for 88-year old.
Doesn’t look anything like the Gorbachev I learned about.
@@Ashfielder he was the lender when the Chernobyl disaster happen
lee cokeley Amongst other arguably more important things, yes. He’s just aged a lot.
He's a traitor to the USSR
Rest in peace, last relic of the USSR is now gone. A person who was the only leader to give his people freedoms. We won’t forget you, rest easy comrade.
He gave "freedom", but took the bread... OK, I can go to Red Square and criticize the government, but what will it give me when my salary is 10 times less and I have nothing to eat?...
The Socialist Republic of Transnistria is another relic of the USSR that still exists if you are interested. And no im not trying to correct you.
@@Anonymous-qj3sf what bread lmao Soviet wages were always shite
@@expertbrody9914 I'm not talking about the Stalinist USSR, but about the USSR of the 1950s-1980s. At this time, Soviet people lived well, with many social guarantees. Free education, medicine, apartments. There was no hunger and lack of food. There are no homeless and unemployed... We lost all this in the late 1980s. In the 90s there was widespread corruption, crime, poverty, unemployment, people literally ate newspapers to survive. Now go to bed, and before going to bed, watch a documentary about "10,000,000 victims of Stalin's Gulag", Western child 😂
Literally just came back here to comment the same thing 🙏🏼🕊
Gorbachev: Exists
Queen Elizabeth: Finally, a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary!
Lol she will outlive him
Briliant
What about Jimmy carter he is 2years older than the queen
Hmmm..
@@joydip9044 oh shit really 🤯????
Gorbachev: "The place where the Americans dropped their first bombs is still affected."
The interviewer: 🙂
He is in awe of the person who is in front of him. We also do that in my family sometimes while somebody we respect and admire is talking, not because we find their words funny or amusing
🙂
@@hailun374 it was a sincere english pleasant smile
@@borislopez6959 I did the same remark.
you did my day lol))) it's more funny, when you understand russian)
lmao
“I shook hands with both Ronalds, Reagan and McDonald!”
- Mikhail Gorbachev
If your name ends with "in", time to get out
"I have the balls to let Baryshnikov dance playa"
“Kicked down that was like the Kool-aid man, oh yeah!”
Did somebody say ‘birthmarx”?
You both need yoga and you need a shower
He may be blamed for the downfall of the Ussr, but he gave what the people wanted, glasnost and perestroika and new cultures in the late 1980’s, and he will never be forgotten for ending the Cold War and valuing ideals rather than absolute power. Rest in piece, Gorbachev, you have made a mark in history.
He should be credited for dissolving a criminal system. But he had no choice. Reagan, Thatcher and reality overpowered him.
@@ericfernandez9 You underestimate the choice Soviet Union, even a husk of its former self, can make.
It doesn't have to benefit its people, or even humanity, but leader such as Stalin will turn to one final war instead, one to take over enough economic resource to extend survival of the Union.
@@Verpal Their military was already ruined. They couldn't conquer Afghanistan or hold on to Eastern Europe any longer.
@@bigverybadtom I didn't say they will win lol, but Soviet Union at the time still have the organizational strength to do one final mass mobilization before going kaput, and many Soviet diehard might opt for that dangerous bet instead, due to their belief in Communism itself over people of Soviet Union.
@@Verpal They certainly have their spy network-we captured a number of spies for the Soviets after the Cold War.
"Chilly,but still a war"
Thats going in a history book someday
@@ZaleEgor So the man who ensured that the USSR didin't splinter into a million bloody pieces and plummet eastern europe into decades of war and senseless violence, not to mention the last leader of the arguably largest country of the 20th century, is not noteworthy enough to be in a history book? Ok then.
@@ZaleEgor answer me this: What did you think would have happened If Gorbachev decided to extend the Soviet Union into a techno-informational age the country was NOT prepared for? What would have happened if he had decided to keep eastern berlin a soviet satelite state by brute force, having to silence any further descent from the balcanic countries that were as allways a powder keg waiting for a spark? Could the USSR have hold on for a couple more decades? Maybe. Would It do anything other than slowly self-implode into irrelevance? Hell no
If you need an example of this, take a closer look at Post-maoist China
@@colbyallman it was pepsi not coca cola screw coca cola it is bad pepsi is good
Egor Zaleskis I'm sorry, im not really informed well in this caption, but i can tell you alot about nazis. Well but this sounds not very nice to me! I'm sorry bro!
@@ZaleEgor typical polish who's offended by Russia
Knowing Russian language, I can say, everything that Gorbachev said is truly translated in English
Ну очевидно попробуй они сделать некорректный перевод это бы быстро выяснили. Русский язык заграницей тоже учат и не мало людей увидели это видео.
Stfu no one asked
Propane who even invited you
@@josh2232 no
Спасибо, мой Русский друг!
My brain: "Okay let's get some work done!"
_1.5 hours later_
My brain: "Yeah, let's watch the former soviet leader mikhail gorbachev full interview - bbc news"
To your credit, there are worse things to watch.
lol same
Well i watched this before i had a test about the cold war so it helped a little
Same I’m supposed to be writing an essay RN 😂😂
Same.
My dad's favorite leader who lived in a remote village of southern part of India. He always used to get emotional and cried for this great man...I am in 60s now... wondering how this great man inspired a man from a tiny village of India... legends live forever. Rest in Peace Mr. Mikhail Gorbachev.
Such admiration can fly across vast distances.
And he was devastated at what is happening I. Ukraine
Your dad did t know much!
Gorbachev was inspired by PM Nehru....he was actually present when PM Nehru visited his university!
The ussr made us cry but not Gorbachev
Gorbachev: “You’re already filming, aren’t you?”
BBC: *Sweats nervously*
At which minute?
Magda Draganova 0:00
@@ACasualPerson Thank you.
Savinder Singh BAINS comrade*
@@ACasualPerson if it was stalin then imagine
He sounds like the type of guy that will tell you many interesting stories while together fishing in a lake
Rdr2 hosea
@@خالدسلوم-ت9خ
“hello fellers!”
I wanna here his side of Chernobyl.
@@samuraispike4615 me too
@@samuraispike4615 watch the hbo series then
This guy is literal living history
Ikr imagine all the things he knows
@@Chuked Exactly
True
@Crosby That was Yeltsin.
Gorbashew wanted to save the USSR
Disagree
It’s unfortunate that a man like Gorbachev had to pass, the fact that he allowed the Eastern Bloc to go it’s own way, saved millions of lives. History will never forget him.
Убил миллионы, он погубил миллионы жизней. Больше чем Гитлер. Гореть ему в аду.
saved? In the recent history of Russia there are only two demographic holes - WW2 and Collapse of USSR.
Thanks to this man during the 90’s Russian people suffered so much, that losses can be compared with losses in WW2. And there are still much terrible things happening due to this man, for example - conflict in Ukraine.
There is no wondering why tons of people in Russia call him a traitor - because they all have suffered much, and still they are suffering
It's unfortunate that President Clinton was not receptive to the request of Vladimir Putin to join NATO. Russia renounced communism and encouraged Orthodox Christianity. Makes you wonder that if we had granted his request that Russia (by then a part of the European Union), would have stayed out of Crimea and Ukraine. Blessed are the peace makers. It's still not too late. Give peace a chance.
@@PaulOfPeace54 leads you to the conclusion that one and only goal for NATO is to oppose Russia
@@danilaagapitov1627 Well we can't have peace. What would happen to the military industrial complex and the 'relations' they have with their minions in business and government. American jobs and working infrastructure would give the proletariate the idea that they were actually in charge.
He is why we have pizza hut in russia
@Nate Higgers Ok. Nice name. Very relevant to what's happening today.
I _love_ that commercial! The young guy and the older guy are having a big "Gorbachev Rocks! vs Gorbachev Sucks!" argument, and the old lady just jumps in and shuts them both down by stating the fact that, without Gorbachev, there wouldn't be a Pizza Hut in Moscow for them to sit in, eat pizza and argue about whether Gorbachev rocked or sucked.
So I guess that the old lady proved the young guy right. But I still say that _she_ was the one who won the argument. :-D
Thats bullshit many communist countries like laos , vietnam and cuba adopted the chinese free market system eventually ussr would too ... She won a scripted argument but not a real one
@@syntheticdawn4992 Well, when Laos, Vietnam and Cuba come out with _their own_ Pizza Hut commercials, we can comment on _those_ commercials and how close to reality they skirt. But for now, Russia stands alone on the ex-Communist Pizza Hut heap. Long may the Russian Hut reign!
Fuck the P-hut there is really something wrong to honor an arch traitor who bent the knee to the ruling cabal
Fun fact: Gorbachev is the only Soviet Leader to be born in the Soviet Union and not the Russian Empire
Edit: honestly not surprised people are arguing in the replies lol
Yes
it is only fitting that he be the one to end it.
Heh, that is a pretty fun fact.
@@VSSFantastic i am from RF, and l am born in RF
Yes, young are stupid
When I was a kid, I used to think that Gorbachev had a tattoo of his country on his head. That made me believe he was a really good statesman.
Hahahaha great story
Safak Sahin
When I was a kid I used to think a lizard had spat on his head or perhaps an adult pisstaker from my family might have told me that but I swear that was what I thought whenever he appeared on tv.
Faleiar, or whatever you call it
Some other Turkish kids like Şafak and me used to think that UN trucks with huge white U and N letters upon them were carrying flour. Un is flour in Turkish.
@@muverrih-imaderzad3478 When finally Gorbachev's perestroika succided in Bulgaria in 89 my father had a nervous break down, that I remember as it was yesterday.
I feel bad for him, all his effort of making sure there’s no war was deteriorate until his last breath
Rest In Peace, Mikhail Gorbachev, May your dream come true soon
hey
Gorbachev is 88 years old, and he is still sane. Part of his guilt in the collapse of the USSR, he admits. I had to go all the way.
90 years old!
@@JlNnKNN_3HAK November 8, 2019, then 88 years old
Well why didn't you put " was then 88 years old"?
Well yeah, but not many understand how it was actually Brezhnevs fault that ussr collapsed. Sure people loved living under his rule but he made collossal mistake by not doing any sorts of reforms.
It never should've collapsed. The world needed a block against American monopoly. Anyway China is rising now.
“You know I used to rule this whole country!”
“Okay grandpa.”
Empire
Your mom is a cheap and shallow response.
@Scott Spencer Woosh....
I used to rule the entire siberia and eastern europe
Scott Spencer do you know that jokes exist.
"I respect Britain. It's a talented and powerful country."
Never thought I'd hear that from the former leader of the USSR
Cringe
@@negomires2745 From what Dimension are you that you call this cringe?
Of course. He worked well to please them after all! In some photos of his birthday he even dress the english colonial headdress.
@@negomires2745 You do realize your smoking in a arsenal full of powder kegs when you say that right?
@@uncleflagzz it just feels cringe to me i have some issues and i think too manny thing are cringe even if they arent i have anxiety probably
For the past decades I kept calling him a Living Legend. You brought the West and USSR closer than ever - RIP Legend
RIP Traitor
Shame Putin is ripping the country apart again and would take it back to how it was under Stalin tomorrow if he has the chance.
@@wederMaxim suck balls dude give some damn respect
@@wederMaxim bot
@@firsargentum5920 I don't think the people who call Gorbachev a traitor are necessarily bots. After all, Russians weren't better off after he left office.
This how you interview someone. You let them speak freely without interrupting them, that's what an interviewer must do.
Lol I just watched that video a few hours ago
Putin cuts off his opposition what do you expect? Shooting them?
Putin top
@@andriod8014 agreed I'm not a fan of this russia.
@@megawave79 watch Navely vid on Putin. Hes living a double life, one portrays him as a leader and the other a pussy.
Reagan is gone, now Bush, and this guy is still here.
Yes. But remember..... he was 20 years younger than Regan at that time. Still - amazing that he is still around. And amazing to listen to him speak. I don't like the comment he made about America dropping the bombs on Japan. But I understand why he might say that. This is an amazing little piece of history - this interview.
@@jimmyz2098 Jimmy carter is still alive.
@@kelvinsurname7051 Jimmy Carter doesn’t have Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's so.....
“Hey”
@@jimmyz2098 did America not drop 2 atomic bombs and killed hundreds of thousands of INNOCENT people in Japan? Why do you not like his comment 😂 did it hurt your amurican ego?
I searched him up a few months ago. I was shocked to find out he was still alive. This man has lived more than 3 decades since he was "removed" from power.
Ikr with him and also fedelcashtro who died in 2016 I thought he died in like the 1980s
@@carlosvera-ip6qx *Fidel Castro
he removed himself from power ,or soviet union still exists, have you heard about perestroika
地狱害怕解体，所以不接收戈尔巴乔夫🤣
@@_hnghngdv9113 they don´t want him there because he destroid soviet union
We need a Gorbachev in Russia now more than ever. He was a giant of a man. RIP Mikhail Gorbachev and thank you for what you did.
Agree
What did you edit in this comment? I thought for a minute you legit wrote this a few hours before he died.
Be loved in foreign and past enemies but hated by mort of Russian people who he originally should served, unfortunately. He fail to prove that Russian people can keep wealth, dignity after political reform brings more freedom. Partially made today’s more aggressive Russian. But still hoping him Rest In Peace
@@jimb7050 As a Russian guy said this morning 'he gave us freedom, and we didnt know what to do with it'.
@@fornax5798 only a mispelling :)
Gorbachev is right about nukes, but he seems a little scared of Putin.
He ratted us out, he has all the reason to be scared.
Every Russian is scared of Putin.
Putin is basically Stalin but way less evil.
Have you seen what he does to political dissidents? He's basically diet Stalin.
Putin is a Strong leader but when he is gone there will be a huge vacuum in Russia
He looks so changed. If it wasn't for that mark on his head, I wouldn't have recognized him!
What is with the mark on his head?
@@gamewithadam7235 birthmark
Wine spill
@@MikePlaysYeet lmao
@@darkmemes953 I think that's actually what the term for it is actually called lol🤣
Imagine discussing politics with Mikhail Gorbachev himself
Edit 8/30-2022: rip Mr. Gorbachev (1921-2022)
Ikr? It's amazing
It will be interesting to chat about politics with him
Good
RIP
Gorbachev was born in 1931* but yes, RIP Premier Gorbachev
Rip Mikhail Gorbachev. You are a legend and saved us from world war 3. You are got how our world is today if it wasnt for you we wouldnt be alive. You are the hero of mankind and we will never stop thanking you for what you did
How he saved the world from the Third World War ?
previous soviet leaders threatened the us to launch nuclear missiles and destroy the world
@@RandomShortsUploader didn't American leaders threaten in the same way ?
He didn’t save us from a world war, it was pretty unlikely almost no matter which politician would be in charge instead of him. But he did give his people liberties and cut down on the killing.
No one saves me from world war three
He's been alive longer than the Soviet Union did
shows the failure of the system
No he wasn’t.
@@AlexandruSorez Actually, he was. He was born in 1931, so he's 89 years old, and the Soviet Union existed for roughly 69 years.
He didnt have to end it tho
@@koffiya9184 *68
It’s so strange how upfront he is, it’s something not really often found in world leaders.
thats when you know he's completely kicked out of all circles of power
he can finally tell the truth LOL
He got there in the end. Minus Chernobyl...
Look at interviews most former leaders in power after they're no longer in power. Its pretty similar
Because he has nothing to lose and nothing to protect.
He was ANYTHING BUT up front. Everything he said about Putin (though he was too afraid to even mention him by name--even commenting on the fact that he wasn't mentioning him) was indirect, and even that tiny indirect criticism was followed up with ridiculous excuses for Putin clinging to power: "I hear on the news [state-controlled news!] that the people still want him to stay on...and finish the job."
And ONE THING IS CLEAR: He must have ruled out from the beginning answering any questions on Putin's ANNEXATION of CRIMEA!
Imagine what those eyes must have witnessed.
His own nation getting collapsed and chaos
Biggest traitor to one's own nation
@@siam9914 wtf boss baby??
@@siam9914 Oh yes of course tried to improve the lives of everyone succeeded but then Yeltsin dissolved the Soviet Union and he took the balme
@@christopherjohnson3464 You’re partially right, a lot of other Russians will say he was a traitor and he collapsed the Union. I think that this wasn’t his intention, but the fact that he doesn’t live in Russia now says quite a bit. He might have had good intentions and actually done something about the ailing country, but glorifying him definitely isn’t right.
Edit: I made a mistake in my comment, he lives in a dacha outside moscow nowadays but he left for GB after the fall of the USSR.
Rest in peace, Gorbachev. We know it wasn't your fault. The last comrade, a long life of 91 years. We salute you.
This man had the power to end the human race with a war, and now he looks like a regular rusian granpa
mf can kill anyone with a glance.
Exactly but achieved way more than you.
PBottega 77 - *Russian, *Grandpa, and it was thanks to him (and, eventually Ronald Reagan) that nuclear war didn’t happen - learn your history
@Coronavirus
What are you talking about? He said that he could have, but didn’t.
@@potatofuryy Yes, but it was because of him the cold war ended.
Gorbachev is one of the rare politicians who really changed the history.
Ni Denghui what if someone assassinate him at dis moment
Michael WIlson then he would be dead
He did, but in which way?
@@dauletshynybaev I would say good. He seems to have cared for what his people wanted, avoided war and peacefully dissolved the Soviet Union. As far as I know.
Unreal Railway 1 peacefully? Read some information from Soviet Union, it says that lots of countries didn’t even want to leave Soviet Union, like Kazakhstan, Belarus, and lots of others (you can check it). People was killed, a lot of peasants didn’t have any money after that, and crime rate went up, one time ruble was more expensive then dollar, but after G.K.CH.P. everything went wrong. Countries was pushed to leave. So maybe he wanted everything to be good, but he couldn’t hold such a big country in his hands, which made it collapse
"Let us grow our food. Just make sure there's no war". The man listened to THE PEOPLE.
No he didnt. He ended the great soviet union while 65% of the population voted for it to be kept.....
And he took orders from the MI6.
@@blackpaint9093 wasn't there a coup though that instigated the federated republics to declare independance in order to avoid the chaos of a possible civil war?
Yeah, thanks to his reforms Russia was a real hell in the 90s. Thanks to him, nationalism began to flourish in the republics, which was quite local under previous rulers. Thanks to him Russia lost 10m people. Thanks to him, the Russian economy has experienced almost the largest regression in history and is now supported by the remnants of the Soviet economy. Not least because of him, Chechnya rose up and this bloody and senseless slaughter began.
Thanks to HIS reforms, an oligarchy was established in Russia. Thanks to HIM, appeared many millionaires who robbed the country in the 90s.
Yeah, he really listened people.
@@fyodorkojevin5756 You know that the occupied republics aren't and never were Russia. He didn't lost people, he gave what the countries wanted and had until the moment Stalin came in and turned everything to shit. And now Russia is occuping lands yet again. I hope that Russia suffers, but I'm also very sad about the Russian people that don't deserve this. :(
his intentions from all the way back in the late 80s to 90s, when he began democratising the Union and introducing self-determination, still ring out through his words. I respect him for holding these values for all these years. It’s difficult for a politician to know what they want for a country and hold true to that.
No
Ага. И у него план по развалу СССР был этой... Дымократией
@@verawest7399 yes
@@Hoshihar демократия может и не плохой вариант был для России и остается, но не так как ее преподнес Горбачев, просто развалив все что можно.
@@evgeniyap.2375 может и не лишняя. Но только не для политики.
"Did somebody say, birthmark?"
If your name ends with in, time to get out!
Mikhail Raleigh Patricio no shit
Did somebody say real power?
Said hello to both Ronald's,Reagan and McDonald's no doubt
greg oscar You ruined the joke.
He actually seems like a pretty chill guy to sit down and have a good, long conversation with.
@Sainayoro no he was not
the brejnev started the fall of the solvent union and gorbochov had a canse to restart everything but he just killed it forever
@@allenk6373 blah blah blah yankee
@@allenk6373 exactly...he did what was right, everybody knows you can't lie ppl 24/7 and force them, limit them and so on in such times, he did what was right, let the ppl to decide what they want, good or bad is their call, if i want to eat pizza i should be right to do so even if is not healthy
yeah
@@allenk6373 USA is going bye bye soon yankee. American Mail order brides, here I come! 👋
He was 10 years old when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The man lived through the chapters of our history book!
R.I.P.
He was smaller when Soviet Union and Nazi germany invaded Poland together
@@DJALEXNOWO he was even smaller when Germany annexed Austria
@@lincolngray4362 And he was born a month after Japan invaded Manchuria. Everything else right after, this man has lived through!
And he shaped the course of our history books as well
Να λες τα πράγματα με το όνομα τούς Η Ναζιστική Γερμανία εισέβαλε στην Σοβιετικη ένωση και μετά. Πήγαινε η Σοβιετικη ένωση εκεί. Νάτο λες όπως είναι όχι να αλλάζουμε την ιστορία.
Rest in Peace, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev. You were the pacifist hero the world needed. Your reforms and your impact will never be forgotten. History will remember you, and I will forever thank you for being my pacifist hero. Thank you, and rest easy. You deserve it.
Reforms from which the countries of the former USSR suffered more than during the WW2.
R.I.P
#Tyme_Whyrlwynd Well said. RIP to a fine man, a kind pacifist.
@@suecondon1685 , конечно для вас хороший. Он же для вас СССР развалил. Вы англичани, молчите не вам говорить
Shame the same can’t be said for Putin, who would take the country back to how it was under Stalin tomorrow if he has the chance.
Holy shit, the interviewer has some pristine russian. Props to that.
EMIL FEIKMAN he is a Russian working for BBC
@@Masaru_kun Who is the cats
I thought he was Russian!! was a bit shocked when Gorbachev said "you british"
@@Nobodyimportantanywayy his accent is way off for a russian native
veter severnyj I just guessed to be honest ahahah
He actually sounds like a very interesting person to talk to
God Gamer yea hes the ex soviet leader why would it notbe interesting to talk to him lmao
Most leaders are more interesting in person. And AFTER they played their part. It means that they can be more honest. Watch the death of Yugoslavia - it has the same spirit as this interview.
@@affentaktik2810 Because he ain't american.
He would tell you how to destroy one of the most powerful country in the world. It's the best he can do, oh actually saying bullshit for money is his hobby.
@@restyecp most powerful
Country? Yes in that logic disgusting Kim Jong eun is one of them. The most powerful is the country the most people want to immigrate and want to live.
When you have 1 nuclear bomb, you are the axis of terror; when you have 10 nuclear bombs, you are the factor of regional instability; when you have 100 nuclear bombs, you are an important force to maintain regional stability; When you have 500 nuclear bombs, you are an important participant in the international order; when you have more than 2,000 nuclear bombs, you are the cornerstone of global peace and stability.
auther Kather so truee
When you kill one man, you are called a murderer and they hang you. When you kill one million men, you are called a hero and they give you a medal.
And that’s us and Russia
@Britannic hayyomatt Your thought with nukes is right but your example is shit. Chemical weapons especially gas was way too expensive and had a bad use/death ratio. Normal weapons were more cost and kill effective that's the only reason for not using them. Furthermore you could argue that Hitler feared/detested chemical weapons because he experienced them on himself in WW1.
@Britannic hayyomatt Exactly disabling the enemy is the goal. With poison gas you do that to you and the enemy. Back in WW1 there were multible occasions where your own attack was carries back to your trenches by the wind or the gas accumulated in the area for 1-2 days. Furthermore gas has a shelf life like everything else. You can't store it infinitely therefore it has to be replaced regularly aswell as stored in a special way. (shelf life: weeks in normal canisters and temperature and months in very cold conditions). All in all it's a way more costly endeavour. To cripple men shells are therfore more price efficient than poison gas. And yes they were concerned that the allies would use chemical weapons as retaliation but the production overall just doubled in consequence because again they knew that it is way to expensive. Moreover till the end of the war in 1945 45 million people's gas masks were produced (almost the same amount as the population of Britannia)
Rest in peace to a legend. He truly saved us all.
Especially the ukrainians gratefull to him. It's so great to have a war with Russia or somebody else.
Yes, you are absolutely right, he saved the West, and brought the post-Soviet countries into poverty. May he burn in hell, traitor.
@@malaha84 It's better to have a war with Russia than it was with the Soviet Union. Russia is losing so badly it's embarrassing
Huh? lol
@@amazin7006 This is not true, keep listening to the West's news.
"It's important to change leaders" "It's in the constitution" Then Putin goes and change the constitution...
As a russian i said , our human rights are not respected, and now after the "vote" it has become worse
@@МэкуйанскиЖэларёв Sorry for my English, I dont know how in France with human rights, but I think you have better rights than we have in Russia, I have not thoroughly compared so dont be angry. Putin has been in power for 20 years and if at the beginning many but not everyone thought that this was a fresh breath of air, now it is an authoritarian regime where only people loyal to the government are needed and they simply get rid of unwanted people (they put them in prisons for fabricated cases, reproach for psychiatric hospital, etc.), so that many, like me, hate Putin and his friends. someone said that "while the whole world is developing according to Huxley, Russia is following Orwell."
@KarmaKahn ok, heres a better translation - "Its in constitution, we intended it this way, but sometimes, when Country goes through changes, it could be that none is ready to take on... Putin inherited chaos and he resolved this chaos! Media says, he still needs time, I am for law, but I'm for people's opinion above all"
Its very sad, but IMO entire world is like one Orwell novel.
Perhaps, Illusion of freedom is even worse than lack of it, for oppression can be seen and measured but if your freedom is nothing but a dream, there might be no escape
Wilhelm der Dritte I hope I may share my point of view with you. Problem of Russia has become complex because Putin made all branches of government listen to him, even if it goes against the law and the Constitution. You might know the “State Duma” what is analog of National Assembly in France. So this Duma is just a circus. They actually make nothing. We call 'em “system opposition” cos they exist to be like a picture on TV. Clever people in Russia know that there is a gang of oligarchs who steal oil. Putin is in there. Russia has enormous number of problems. Unfortunately, with corrupted system becomes impossible to make any changes. It is even worse, than the Soviet Union in 70-80’s because people could live. Somehow, but could. What happens now? People live in those old soviet houses and try to struggle. Russia is flying into the abyss.
Wilhelm der Dritte Gotcha, thank you very much for your polite and pleasant words about Russia. We’ll see in the future what’s gonna be. I believe in the nice future of France too! Greetings from Russia 🇷🇺. Vive la France 🇫🇷 :)
Gorbachev the guy every interviewer and documentary production is running to before he dies
Well since the USSR is long gone and he has distanced himself from the Russian government (not politics in general) they can get a reliable opinion about the current World Stage, however if some american or european who watches the interview believes its just full of poo poo because he is an ex-commie then thats fine still, we cant force them out of that brainwashed mindset
They f****** better. Everyone all the time, all throughout history. Everybody has a camera so let's get as much primary source info as we can!!!!
@@felipesubiabre314 red means dead
@@donsuh1105 - That is a rather pathetic comment you made! Spoken like a typical right-winger!
Its not every day that they an interview a biggest traitor in whole human history.
For those who thought he was dead, you're thinking of Yeltsin.
no we weren't
Hey when can I preorder Soviet Union 2?
I suspect most people assumed he was dead because he seems like a character of history from a bygone era.
When Stalin died nobody wanted to disturb him just in case he might be sleeping and wake up in a bad mood. True story.
@Lance Penguin I don't see the validity of comparing a random US citizen to the head of state of the Soviet Union in terms of "are we going to check if he's alive?". Talk about whataboutism.
Heartbreaking to see him pass before the end of the war in Ukraine. May he rest in peace.
And let them. I hope that at least it was a small, but still a punishment for him.
What does "heartbreaking" mean? If you love Gorbachev, then you should be happy for him, because before his death he was once again convinced of the success of his policy.
may he rot in hell
Пусть он в гробу вертится, чёрт плешивый!!!
Update, it still hasn’t ended yet
Still surprises me that this guy owns a Pizza Hutt.
What? I must knoe
@@XxCheese69xX Some years ago he did a commercial for Hutt
Frank Reynolds
Yeah who knew that he worked for the Hutts
@@antikokalis look this video my friend's ua-cam.com/video/fgm14D1jHUw/v-deo.html
@@Khronik_ he just need money for he foundation
Don't lie, we all thought he was long dead
I tried to search up if he was dead and no answers until now
Yeah, I don't research if he's dead or not. I just guessed he's dead.
I knew he was alive
I thought he was dissapear :D
You're right.
For an 89 year old man, he looks much younger. Could easily pass for 70s.
90 years old
He understood the Soviet system perfectly. He just refused to be a slave to it, he enacted policies he believed in. What a cool guy.
The interview should be 8 hours, not 8 minutes, he is one of the most important people of 20th century.
Oh give him a break man, at least just give him 30 minutes or 1 hour, like he's old as heck man, and all the shits he gone through
Also one of the people that they want dead.
@@mrsobamad3387 straight facts
I AGREE
Он один из самых жестоких убийц 20 века !!! На его счету десятки млн жертв , и конца-края не видно . Будь он трижды проклят !!!
Me : scrolling in boredom
UA-cam : soviet russia?
Me: yes komrade
durr cringe
@Dimitri Papa di Nikolaus you are cringe
Alan MacLaren • 76 years ago durr cringe
@Dimitri Papa di Nikolaus get your ass to gulag
@@alanmaclaren4118 Too bad man..Gulag didn't exist anymore..... But the prison still exist!
"You British are clever clogs"
hes basically speaking English there
But it's just how they translated his words... The meaning of 'Clever clogs' suited well for the Russian word 'умники' and that's it
Родион Свинухов I would say “smartasses” would be the proper translation tbh
@@RASIII9 Yeah but in English thats an insult
@@billclinton3862 not necessarily, smartass just means you're creative with your words and like to humor people. At least that's the way I always took it. So clever clogs would come close.
@@psychedeliccarrie5921 probably
May he rest in peace. To some, a hero. To others, the devil. But at times like these, he’s a human being.
That's like saying, may Adolf Hitler rest in peace.
@@hroarrhrogarhalfdanssonafs9414 you definitely know nothing about him
@@hroarrhrogarhalfdanssonafs9414 That's not the same thing, this guy was nothing like Hitler
@@yeah1326He killed as much as russians as Hitler did, if not more.
@@hroarrhrogarhalfdanssonafs9414 Imagine comparing Gorbachev to Hitler... Think you fell down a flight of stairs head first before writing that, didn't you?
*Mikhail "I shook hands with both Ronald, Reagan and McDonald" Gorbachev*
If your name end with "in" time to get out
@Ash Chat tore down that wall like the kool aid man!
I shook hands with Ronald McDonald
@@ivanbrkan8611 you two need yoga and you need showah
@@OtakuExtreme25 and you all need to learn how to handle real power
3:27 I almost cried along with him, he was on the verge.
You can see his lower lip shaking when he continued talking.
Well i mean....russia lost 25-30 million people in a non nuclear war....imagine if nuclears were used
America would have surrendered after the first 10 million Americans died.
@@levvy3006 America joined the war in the fourth year
@@francisjohn7963 making them the ones who less took casualties from the war no? Principally when talking civilians.
"Chilly war," I like the phrase
Let's hope we don't get frozen war...
Well I mean, thanks to climate change can you really call any war cold anymore? :P
@@sanyalox01 *laughs in anti freeze*
I was recently wondering what happened to MG and am surprised with how sad I am at his passing. He seems a complicated figure, in many ways a visionary. It’s unfortunate that the people he resided over didn’t prosper following the breakup of the Soviet Union, and so they don’t see him as someone who changed the world for the better.
I hope the time is coming when the world will again see leaders who share a vision for global wellbeing and work together to that end. Thank you Mikhail Gorbachev for letting the walls get torn down.
Common people in Russia would have followed him.But the biggest problem in that communist Russia,were the soviet leaders(just like today).MG couldn't deal with them because they didn't want to lose their privilegies.But when you ask for the one to blame people only say it was Gorbachov's fault,as if he was kind od Superman able to do everything by himself...Russians still don't realize the big loss they have losing him.And not only russians...
The tears in his eyes, when he speaks about how people feared war, show that he doesn't feel understood.
LFSG
Is it really that? Perhaps he is one of a few men who held great and terrible powers and it actually grieves him to remember his people’s anguish and loss of WWII.
Regards...
LFSG your conclusion is incorrect. Its that he feels emotional about it.
Its an emotional subject, so much suffering.
@@ned900 Who knows?
They are all traitors, including Putin, they play to your tune, and defend your country's interests
@@bh2o Man do you even know what you are talking about, do you even know at which period Gotbatchev became General Secretary of the Communist Party, and when he became President of the Soviet Union?
You're talking absolute nonsense and comparing the end of the 80s-90s in USSR to the 50s before Stalin died, as if it was the same for 40 years.
Gorbatchev was the president who gave to his people the most "freedom" as we call it in the west, and who opened his country to the world.
Putin: *Spends 36 years in power *
Gorbachev: 👁️👄👁️
well as we heard from this interview he doesn't actually give a fuck how long putin will rule the country. meet the real democrat...
He hasnt spent 36 years on power tho
@@randomriku6774 Russians 'voted' him in to office until 2036. Putin took power in early 2000's
👅
@@k.i.c6463 wrong. He CAN be voted in future. Nobody knows what will happen in Russian politic after civil war in Belarus
I honestly thought he died years ago, learning about him in high school no one told me he was still alive
Well, they didn't tell you how he died and when... so... ;)))
So did I, even though I'm Russian.
Mind-blowing...
i didn't knew is he dead or no, but I saw on world internet about him, by the way we learned about him last year
Some others responding thought he had died too... probably have him confused with his successor after the Soviet collapse, Boris Yeltsin.
Rest in Peace, a legend and a hero.
1931 - 2022, fly high.
Why this "hero" live out of Russia after destructing the USSR? Do you know why?
@@malaha84 Because the autocratic fascists murder all political opposition.
Remember their names, Anna Politkovskaya, Alexander Litvinenko, Sergei Magnitsky, Paul Klebnikov, Sergei Yushenkov, Natalia Estemirova, Alexander Perepilichnyy, Boris Berezovsky, Sergei, Yulia SkripalBoris Nemtsov, Denis Voronenkov, Stanislav Markelov And Anastasia Baburova
@@amazin7006 What are you talking about? You want to say that capitalism created its criminal?)))
@@malaha84 потому что в России его бы убили
Его ненавидит народ, он предатель родиины
@@АВАНГАРД-т8юonly correct answer
Everyone: Queen Elizabeth is immortal!
Me, an intellectual: Gorbachev noises
Well, Queen Elizabeth reign since the 1950s while Gorbachev didn't reach a decade in office. Also, the Queen is way older than Gorbachev.
@@unsec-genantonioguterres5788 r/wooosh
@@LeNumidium I believe it is r/woooosh with 4 o's
@@unsec-genantonioguterres5788 yes but unlike queen liz, he actually had power and did something nobel with it
Jimmy carter noises
We need Bald & Bankrupt to interview Gorbachev.
"Come look at this old soviet leader!"
Majestic Javelin lmaooo
Then have him repeat “This is the former soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev of the former Soviet Union” about 10 times, just to confirm that it is in fact the former soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev of the former Soviet Union.
"Wow, look at this, this is the most Soviet person I've ever seen, I'm loving it."
YES
"I won't give you any advice. You decide."
*America left the chat*
lol
Wonder where he got that
Wind Of Change, For World Peace. Over 782 million views on UA-cam
@@rockerchick4368 ?
LMAO... Thanx John RObert Teves :)
In memory of the last leader of the Soviet Union, we must play the Soviet anthem for respect
As a tribute to the victims of his policies.
@@wederMaxim The Soviet and Russian peoples suffered under all their leaders. Russia is a country that has been perpetually exploited, betrayed, and abused by its own leaders. At least Gorbachev tried to make things better.
@@porsche911sbs How the people suffered under Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev... and other Soviet leaders before Gorbachev? Except for the WW1
@@wederMaxim Lenin: Red Terror (1918-1922), honest socialists, SRs and Mensheviks, were executed for opposing Bolshevik policies
Stalin: Holodomor (1932-33), poor policies led to needless amount of starvation
Stalin: Great Purge of 1937 and subsequent purges led to thousands of loyal communists being executed, including a significant amount of Red Army officers (weakening the Red Army before the invasion by Germany)
Stalin: Russification policies and suppression of nationalities other than Russian and Georgian led to suffering and resentment of Russia and the USSR (contributed to the USSR's weakness later on and exploited during the collapse of the USSR)
Khrushchev and successors: Censorship led to the repression of free speech that criticized the government
@@porsche911sbs Lenin did everything right. To hell with the White Guard fascists.
The Holodomor is a common Ukrainian propaganda.
About Stalin's purges: there is such a liberal historian (used to be a liberal) Viktor Nikolaevich Zemskov, who instead of writing books about how Stalin eats babies, did a terrible thing - got into the archives. After that, he wrote a book with the stupid title "Stalin and the People, why the people did not rise up," where he made terrible conclusions that over 30 years of bloody Stalinism, no more than 1.5 percent of the population suffered from the terrible Stalinist repressions.
Freedom of speech is complete bullshit. She was nowhere and never will be.
I can't say anything about Russification. This is the last thing liberals remember when they lie about Stalin, so I've never looked for anything on this topic.
I personally met Gorbachef in 1991 in Ottawa, Canada. We spoke for ten minutes. One best human being I have ever met. Kharasho commrade!
Salis Omar PhD,
🤯 Really? That's mad!
@@anon1534 Are you surprised that I had a long conversation with him, or that he is a good man?
You are pity
@Salis Omar u know he's one of the best people u ever met based on 10 minutes spent with the guy? Really?
@@HogarJr I have a doctorate degree with the thesis on Soviet adventure in Afghanistan. I have read more than 200 books on the subject with douzens about Gorbachev. I have studied everything and anything about him. The ten minutes meeting with him was an icing on the cake. Is that enough for you Hogar?
I honestly have no national or political connection with Russia, but even so, I was interested to what Gorbachev had to say.
Gorbachev IS NOT a person who would tell truth, he destroyed USSR by being president or whatever. If you want true story go to the interner and search USSR 1985
Gorbachev is a traitor. Many Russians hate him, myself included.
@@fyodorkojevin5756 shame on you! Gorbachev is the one who finished the cold war. People with your mindset will cause war and death. Dude, the Soviet Union has done many bad things over decades just like many other superpowers and (America), but sometimes even worse (Afghanistan invasion, Korean war , Vietnam )where both was included and it nearly turned out into a big atomic war. Gorbachev was an intelligent man who saw it would just cause millions of deaths again on both sides and decided to stop it, which was absolutely the right decision. Imagine the atomic war between USA and UDSSR there would still today be the half world full of atomic stuff and the planet would be nearly destroyed.
Be glad someone like him existed!
I am ashamed of the people who responded here
@@fyodorkojevin5756 Why? Without his glasnost and perestroika, you are not even allowed to have a freedom of speech. You would be right modern China like now. He was the reason why many countries was able to retained their sovereignty.
What's funny about Gorbachev is that he actually outlasted the USSR. The USSR lasted from 1922 to 1991 which is 69 years. Gorbachev was born in 1931 and is still alive at 90 years of age.
Edit: doesn’t matter if it was formed in 1917,1922 or even 1903. His age will still be older than all of them.
RIP Gorbachev, the world salutes your efforts.
*74 years. 1917-1991
@@purple.requiem its 1922
@@CodaTV2010 but the soviet thing started since 1917 as Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic
@@purple.requiem yeah but this guys on about the soviet union which started in 1922
@@CodaTV2010 false. The term "Soviet" was created in 1917.
One of the most legendary figures of the 20th Century for sure! With his birthmark, Gorbachev became the portrait for diplomacy, cooperation, and world peace. RIP
Gorbachov arguably killed more russians than Hitler, or at least comparable numbers. Truly someone a westerner would love.
You know Putin is powerful when even the Soviet Union Prime minister is afraid to talk about him
Damn Putin, he is dictator
@@tankop1043 .
@@sadanandkumbhar9960 yes, i admit... I was very rude, but it doesn't means that i said lie
Im from Russia and the Putin is truly a dictator
Putin is no dictator. Russia had dictators, we know how to tell the difference
More he gets old. He is becoming like Churchill.
But he not british
Churchill was a piece of shit
@@redireland3006 ok buddy
@@RemoveBolshevik You must be unaware of his racist history with the Indians
@@redireland3006 Just because people do bad things doesn't mean they aren't good people. Without Churchill, democracy as we know it would no longer exist, Hitler would have won. I don't condone his racism, but he good far outweighted his bad.
You know democracy is in a bad condition when even a former soviet leader says he is worried
Yeah and just look at America now
@@eagleowl833 he is talking about tsar valdmir putin of russia, Who will rule russia for lifetime
@@Vangaurd_tiger Damn Son, He Ruled about 40% of his life,But The USA Should Have an opponent. The Re-United Soviet Union
@@savage_aly8752 usa already have an opponent, The great dragon china
@@Vangaurd_tiger I know lol, Let The Eastern Soviet Union Destroy the West as well
Wrong sentence - he didn't witness the collapse of the USSR, he was one of the causes.
Fun fact:
Gorbachev did an advertisement for Pizza Hut in the 1990s that you can look up on UA-cam
*Tondo*
You’d be surprised. It’s possibly my favorite video to ask people if they’ve seen before so that I can show them if they haven’t. It’s always a hoot
Hail Gorbachev!
Ya everybody knows
Yes and few days after that comercial, that Pizza Hut bankrupted and closed
I did not know thank you
He really tried, and then became hated along the russians and beloved by the west.
He was not trying, his main problem was fact that he did not actually know what to do, he tried to make some reforms, but then he realized that he do not understand what to do and how to do. But instead of being honest to say it and leave the post of leader, he was just sitting silent and letting all the shit around to happen. This one man was more dangerous for whole Socialistic Bloc than whole NATO. He betrayed all the leaders of Bloc, such as Honecker, he betrayed all the Eastern Germans who still feel themselves as foreigners in their own country, he just ruined what people was building for 70 years. In interview to Russian news he was saying that he is very sorry about how all this happened, and that dissolution of USSR is his main fail in whole life. But nothing can be changed after it happened, he can be billion times sorry, but fact that when he had opportunity to do just everything, he decided to actually do nothing, and killed the system from the inside.
@@denis1049 thing is everybody wanted freedom. East Germans also helped take the wall down. Every country that became independant was happy, and almost instantly threw away communism.
@@felaxii, freedom, you say? Go and read news about Germany, when Merkel said that emigrants should feel themselves at Germany as at their home, East Germans said "Maybe you will make us feel as at home ,to start?" 30 years after unification have passed, whole industry of DDR have died, last leader of DDR are living now with pension lover than cleaners have, all the conditions in post-DDR are lover than in Western Germany, and you are speaking of so-called liberation. Man, when countries of Soviet Bloc leaving Warsaw Pact only to join NATO and become satellites of USA and Western Europe, that is not liberation, it is just changing of the side. But there is still difference in before and after: in Socialistic bloc this countries had better conditions, but in EU they are always will be as secondary countries. EU ruined economic in such countries as Hungary, Poland, Romania, Czechia, DDR, and now they are living a way more bad than 30 years ago. In Soviet Bloc Hungary was a country with a strong agriculture, one of the biggest in Europe engineering and grand electronics manufacturing industry. Now whole Hungarian industry are dead, agriculture also dying because EU not allow Hungary to produce goods EU does not want it to produce, and from a strong country with top conditions Hungary now became one of the poorest country in Europe and it thinking about leaving EU.
Such a great liberation, you know.
@@denis1049 Don't waste your tongue with them friend. They don't know what socialism and communism are. Only those who live there know the impact of the collapse of the Soviet Union. A great country stolen by several shameless people like Boris Yeltsin . Soviet citizens were betrayed. Even today i still wonder why Mikhail Gorbachev allow this happen. Being a Chinese. i understand you. Countries that believe in Western lies now just lives in hell. just look at Ukraine and Former Yugoslavia countries.
@@Onattttt Then you were born to be exploited by Capitalism. just Remind you. before First International and Haymarket massacre. Labor works almost 14 hours a day. six days a week. and no Labour law protects them.
Ol’ Mickey chose his words carefully when discussing Putin. Wise.
I was thinking the same thing 🤣
Yeah it'd be a shame if he tripped and fell out of a window at his age
Has he been seen in public since this interview?🤔
Won't be having any tea for a while I imagine
There's a difference between wisdom and cowardice. I would honestly say that it's difficult to see which one he displayed here.
Rest in Peace. He enabled peace in europe over the last 30 years, it's a shame he had to watch his legacy be destroyed.
Thanks to Communist agitator Putin
"It's important to change leaders. It's in the constitution."
Putin: Aite then I'll just change the constitution watch me
When someone is skilled and good as Putin there is no need to change.
@@cloudconnected1476 I hope and pray to God that you are not serious
@@hippodoesyes6475 Putin thinks he is Caesar. "Dictator for life"
@@cloudconnected1476 yes that's right, Putin is a good person, not a super good but at least he cares more with the country than with war, like U.S
@@takeamericaback2560 His rule has all so far been Constitutional and supported by Russian people. I should know, I’m one of them.
Just gonna appreciate the interviewer’s fluency in Russian. For a British guy his speech is great. Yeah, he’s got a little accent, but overall his construction of sentences, vocabulary and etc. is amazing
i noticed the same exact thing!! thanks for mentioning that.
This guy is arguably the most influential figure in modern history that is still alive.
Influential? He took over the greatest country in the world and ended up having two bodyguards.
@@JackConners123 Greatest country in history? go back to history class son.
@@M-Maxentius British empire wasn't centralized enough, let alone Mongolia.
@@M-Maxentius ok grandpa 😶
He is a important figure in the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. The only soviet leader that realized communist closed Market economy doesnt work well.
RIP to a decent man who did his best.
he got tears in his eyes when the anchor asked about the collapse of USSR
because he is the one who make it happen and destory a great country.
@@shinefirex5185 Yeltsin did that
Chuk Uzosike but Gorbachev should stop Yeltsin or do something at least. not just give up.
Shine FireX fam, you lot were eating stray dogs, by you lot I mean my great grandmother
pxanut racist scambag.
I don’t know why I never looked, I just assumed someone of such significance to 20th century history would be dead ... wow.
guy's still alive and kicking at 89
In my opinion the humblest statesman you'll ever see. Such an honest perspective from a man who only wanted World peace. May God bless him and his efforts in making the world a safer place. Mr Mikhail Gorbachev, a man of peace and understanding.
He was CIA
Am I the only one who saw some fear and hesitancy when he was talking about Putin? It might just be me projecting my own thoughts but the whole atmosphere felt so tense when he started talking about him.
@@manjukhatri2339 Well when you see what happens to people who publicly speak badly about Putin in Russia, then you would be careful as well.
Аумаган Филойит ко минау
Дктофан псроде
Одна из самых противоречивых личностей в истории России. Сколько бы не было разговоров, я считаю что он сделал больше и хотел сделать намного больше для людей чем тот же Ельцин. К сожалению не все планы свершились. Думаю если бы обстоятельства сложились в его пользу, то мы бы жили не на обломках СССР, а в настоящей России- наследнице СССР. Покойтесь с миром Первый и Последний президент СССР- Михаил Горбачёв!
Согласен
Ельцин тоже хотел многое сделать, но был пьяницей. В подтверждение этих слов, советую посмотреть его последнее новогоднее обращение
@@vanek2469 Ельцин был западным ставленником
@@Anonymous-qj3sf а горбач нет ?
Ничего противоречивого. Предатель он и все. Во время перестройки/в девяностые бывший СССР пострадал больше, чем во время второй мировой.
Quick reminder that Gorbachev is like 88 or so and is in such good shape. Hope he lives much longer
Dominik Knežević Not to mention the majority of USSR citizens said that they wanted the union to continue but he dissolved it for his own personal gain anyway.
@Dominik Knežević he did cuz he was a spineless leader and a puppet of the west. But I'm glad that Germany reunited. The fall of the USSR had positive consequences.
@@akindudeerada5840 don't say he was spineless, he was the people's leader. he cared for people
@@akindudeerada5840 Germany reunited under western occupation, which is still is today.
Brew Colthup Well they wanted the *union* to survive, not the communist policies that had been driving that train wreck for that last nigh on 70 years
Finally a world leader even though he is former who doesn't feel the need to put his spin on brexit and tell us what to think.
Because they’re thrilled that they’ve caused the destruction of our democracy.
He's own experience would advocate for a stop Brexit resolve.
"You Brits are clever clogs, you'll figure it out."
he doesn't have to. he got plenty of experience with former superpowers destroying themselves through their own stupidity already.
maybe they'll ask his advice when they finally put Britain out of it's long overdue misery.
@@SouthernHerdsman he didnt trust the eu so why would tell britain to remain? eu is as bad as the old soviet union. gorby doesn't trust putin either.
Their tone changes as soon as they start talking about Putin, though. He starts thinking about his words way more, and pauses the break the tension with a dry joke O_O
well if he slips up, he will be slipping in СИБИР
Listen to what he said instead of being like all the sheep you think he's scared of Putin. He chose his words carefully because he knows how important Putin is right now.
@@smartgenes1 You just prove my point even further dipshit. Also on a side note calling someone "sheep" doesn't change the fact that you're 83 iq at best :p
@@Vollzer Well I lived in Siberia...very beautiful country and nature
@@romanmagizow6962 so did Dostoevsky
Rip he sadly passed today :( a true soviet leader
a leader that sold his country and people for the enrichment of capitalists. Undoing the successes of the revolution on which the soviet union was founded on