Gorbachev Resigns: December 25, 1991

[@1v4n30]

He ended it here so the USSR lasted exactly 69 years.

[@marcus9441]

Nice

[@arunaspaulionis8350]

@@marcus9441 Very nice

[@abbad707]

Lmfao very nice

[@myrmecologistjp9228]

It's not nice, stop with this stupid joke, you could actually say it started in 1917 so it's would actually be 74 years.

[@hunter-fh2fy]

@@myrmecologistjp9228 1917 - 1922 Soviet Russia , 1922 - 1991 Sovietunion

[@Memelander]

When you realise that this man is still alive... Gorby today : I used to rule the _USSR._

[@haiiwje]

A Few Minutes Later : Союз нерушимый республик свободных Сплотила навеки Великая Русь. Да здравствует созданный волей народов Единый, могучий Советский Союз! Славься, Отечество наше свободное, Дружбы, народов надежный оплот! Знамя советское, знамя народное Пусть от победы, к победе ведет! Сквозь грозы сияло нам солнце свободы, И Ленин великий нам путь озарил. Нас вырастил Сталин - на верность народу На труд и на подвиги нас вдохновил. Славься, Отечество чаше свободное, Счастья народов надежный оплот! Знамя советское, знамя народное Пусть от победы к победе ведет! Skvoz grozy siialo nam solntse svobody, I Lenin velikij nam put ozaril. Nas vyrastil Stalin - na vernost narodu Na trud i na podvigi nas vdokhnovil. Slavsia, Otechestvo chashe svobodnoe, Schastia narodov nadezhnyj oplot! Znamia sovetskoe, znamia narodnoe Pust ot pobedy k pobede vedet! Мы армию нашу растили в сраженьях, Захватчиков подлых с дороги сметем! Мы в битвах решаем судьбу поколений, Мы к славе Отчизну свою поведем! Славься, Отечество наше свободное, Славы народов надежный оплот! Знамя советское, знамя народное Пусть от победы к победе ведет!

[@lenajk2004]

"I used to rule the USSR" "хорошо, дедушка"

[@junlee7386]

Viva la vida

[@sythereaper8403]

@@lenajk2004 yes

[@Aidan.SverreHolm]

@@haiiwje Google translate boy

[@RedAndBlackIDress]

The person who opened the first Pizza Hut In the USSR

[@abbad707]

yes lol

[@PersimmonHurmo]

People were hungry because of communism...

[@Gia1911Logous]

@Рамис Карама do yoi know Glasnost Perestroika fam? Gorbachev gave more economic freedom to the people The people were actually getting some money, unlike the times before Gorbachev No one agrees with you? Just starve them to death Welcome to communism

[@Sam-qc6sz]

@NotFBIAgent Your name says there's something fishy going on

[@tflees]

@NotFBIAgent hmmmmm.....

[@BW-fz5kf]

Gorbachev was a great man he just wasn't cut out to be a leader, I whole heartedly blame Yeltsin for the break up of the USSR.

[@davyboywilliams]

Gorbachev is still alive

[@abbad707]

exactly good man and I'm not even part of The Former ASSR's or Russia.

[@AdamBorseti]

I think he was a fantastic leader! He ushered nuclear abolishment and opened the West up to the USSR; glastnost and perestroika were his ideas, and he pushed them hard, against the former old guard. If anything, I'd say he saved the hopes of the Russian people by democratizing the USSR. The thing is, you can't expect to remain communist once you've let the outside world in, and the USSR out. He tried to save the Soviet Union, but the system itself was the problem. After the 70s, a war in Afghanistan and the Chernobyl disaster, it wouldn't have mattered who was the Supreme Soviet, the walls were coming down.

[@GabeGWin]

Stalin also screwed with the reputation of the ussr of he never came to power like lenin hoped the ussr would last longer maybe even today

[@balrajsingh1195]

@@GabeGWin stalin was only man after this other leader are gay

[@debjitkarmakar5523]

*"I shaked hands with boths Ronalds, Reagen and McDonald" -Gorbachev*

[@onedepressedengineer_2003]

erb reference

[@sooryan_1018]

No doubt *If your name ends with In, time to get out*

[@asheep7797]

If your name ends with out, time to get in.

[@spkanava]

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[@romanlegion5837]

He also had an incredible amount of dissent from those of an older mindset as he tried to reform the Soviet Union. When some of those opponents became those seeking capitalism, seeing their own self interests in capitalism (hence Russian oligarchs), he couldn’t fight both. The incompetence of the coup left a power vacuum that couldn’t be filled by soviet leadership.

[@bundesautobahn7]

Gorbachev was supposed to get to power even earlier than he did, when Adropov died. There is a documentary, where a speech by Andropov (which was printed because he was too ill to make the speech in public) was changed and his explicit request to have Gorbachev become First Secretary was just taken out. After Chernenko died, Gorbachev outmaneuvered the politburo and central committee of the CPSU to make himself the new boss. And if you look at the people back then, it was time that the old gerontocracy finally ended. Andropov took over at age 69, didn't even last two years. Chernenko was 72 when he died, barely lasting a year. So in this way, there was a major power vacuum based on age for around 2.5 years since the death of Brezhnev.

[@spkanava]

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[@sahil9454]

4:32 Karl Marx returns to Moscow as a barber after Soviet Union falls

[@vanocelot8209]

At least it worked more than Marx in his entire life.

[@ramonornelas8069]

Evan LeFou nah

[@LH-on4bz]

Marx was German

[@theincrediblehulk2865]

@@LH-on4bz Even though he is speaking Russian, this man looks pretty German to me.

[@grandadmiralthrawn3164]

@@vanocelot8209 Marx worked more than most people would do in two lifetimes.

[@captsaison9343]

Бедный Горбачев оказался не в том месте в неподходящее время. Он пытался сделать русскую жизнь лучше, но это было очень трудное время.

[@Allan-et5ig]

Wasn't he tremendously successful - taking everything into account?

[@stalindisciple1418]

He was an idiot, he ruined the lives of millions

[@grahamdempsey1896]

@@Allan-et5ig no Russian standard of living feel of a cliff and the country was swiftly taken over by capitalist oligarchs

[@gaiethking816]

Я видел его, когда был в КСБ

[@LeonWagg]

@@Allan-et5ig Successful? Russia in the 90s saw the greatest catastrophic drop in life expectancy ever, and this is why Gorbachev and Yeltsin are two of the most hated politicians in Russian history.

[@92Rafay]

Gorbachev: Glastnost and Perestoika. Marx: What did it cost? Gorbachev: Everything.

[@abbad707]

ye

[@nicholasnelson7365]

Heaven for oligarchs

[@humanforfreedom9583]

Yeltsins treason didnt help either.

[@NikolaAvramov]

It cost everybody ELSE everything. He got his flat in London and threw his own people to the wolves.

[@artielam1735]

Gorbachev is a man to be respected, and it's a shame how these Russian officials diminished his reform policies that led their way to power!

[@maqamedmaqamedov5658]

Artie Lam Would you respect the kind leader,who separated your country?

[@ibsoccerstaryt2248]

Maqamed Maqamedov yea and it wasn't just his fault. I am 50% Russian Jew. capitalism is better than communism. you want to live in poverty while watching them being so rich? answer me

[@ibsoccerstaryt2248]

@@enhancedintellect dumb*** communism is where you don't get profit you deserve. my family used to live in USSR. capitalism is where you actually get your own profit you deserve from doing your job. you wouldn't be having very nice clothes while under communist rule and not have food. are you a commie trying to take out the USA?

[@stromgrin9738]

what if someone destroyed your motherland which was the home to 293 million.

[@tfp6785]

@@enhancedintellect China and Russia today can fuck America whenever they want. The US empire is falling down, especially if Trump will loose in 2020. USA are a joke.

[@chetpomeroy1399]

Western nations were really concerned, and their populations *frightened,* when, in 1956, Nikita Khrushchev told those Western ambassadors at a reception in the Polish Embassy in Moscow, "We will bury you." Obviously, that's not really a concern now.

[@MrIveyIsBonkers]

They thought he meant "We will destroy you" when he really meant "We will be there when you fall". More appropriately it can be phrased "We will outlive you". Of course, the result was the opposite.

[@mikicerise6250]

I'm from the future...

[@raidang]

Uhh

[@spkanava]

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[@wilsonfisk6626]

He was a good man but a weak leader.

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

USSR's Jimmy Carter.

[@TaftAvenue]

DrewPicklesTheDark and a year before that, UK's Jimmy Carter / Gorbachev became PM: John Major.

[@elnuraliyev6513]

He was bulshit. He was a murderer.

[@clementvgclementvg2868]

Thanks to the context.

[@johndobson8199]

He was the only soviet leader who had some common sense and realised the USSR was basically dead

[@thefakecorvus7842]

Mikhail: I'm I'm just glad I was able to make Russia that was proggressive and Democratic Russia rather than a authoritarian one! Putin: LOL FAM NAH!

[@abbad707]

Lmfaooo

[@Gia1911Logous]

The thing with Putin though, is that, does he want to make a Great Russia for the people to prosperin the future, or a loose Russia for a prosperity lasting for only a moment until it collapses again Putin is not lile the US Presidents He actually thinks about the future

[@mikeamber2528]

@@Gia1911Logous ...but he's authoritarian and kills his political opponents

[@Gia1911Logous]

@@mikeamber2528 yes i know you get one you lose one

[@tflees]

@@mikeamber2528 I mean Trump hacked to win the election

[@jtsmith1817]

Gorby: I used to rule the Soviet Union Yeltsy: I caused chaos in Russia

[@joehradecky729]

I just learned about Gorbachev's passing, sleep well comrade, you will be missed by the world.

[@bforthigh1617]

The socialist system was actually super successful, particularly in the 50s, 60s, ane 70s. The market reforms in the 80 drew disastrous results which led to a corrupt oligarchy and the completely avoidable fall of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev is not a hero. His legacy? Russia's GDP dropped by 40%. Real wages halved. Poverty ballooned from 2.2 million in 1987-88 to 66 million in 1993-95. Millions died under the brutal regime of privatization and shock therapy. Half a million women were trafficked into sexual slavery. That's called bringing freedom to Eastern Europe. Even Ukrainians don't like Gorby. It's baffling to me how Yeltsin and Gorbachev are portrayed as heroes by the west. The average American thinks Gorbachev is a great man. That's just pure ignorance to be honest. I grew up in the USA and I'm used to hearing people say things like "all the USSR leaders were bad except for Gorbachev". Meanwhile in Eastern Europe he's viewed a lot less favorably. People who stand with Ukraine should know that even Ukrainians don't like Gorbachev. If you're someone who praises gorbachev for his role in dissolving the USSR, but hate Putin at the same time then that's just a classic case of "i hate the problems but the causes, the causes are very good". Putin was appointed by Boris Yeltsin to be his successor. Boris Yeltsin was the corrupt president of the Russian federation in the 90s. He was basically a western puppet and was wildly unpopular; homeboy had an approval rating of 6 percent. The communist party was actually poised to win the 1996 election, but the USA rigged it. Americans actually rigged Russian elections, but then complain about Russia supposedly rigging the 2016 American election. The whole Trump being Putin's puppet was actually a made up narrative of the MSM and normies still cling to this narrative despite it being debunked a million times over. The Mueller report found absolutely nothing.

[@spkanava]

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[@eaiouandsomtimesy7924]

He is not happy someone tore down a authoritarian government in a already failing country😭

[@NIKOLAP7]

​@@bforthigh1617The communist economies started to lag behind, that is why market reforms were made - to keep up the pace. But communism can't be reformed, because it's inherently flawed.

[@yuriguedes4898]

​@@bforthigh1617stop lying. The Soviet economy had already been struggling in the 1970s way before Gorbachev came into office. Corruption from the nomenklatura was widespread but the central government was busy repressing other countries from the Warsaw Pact which were starting to give their people freedom. Socialism has only brought suffering everywhere it has been implemented. The Soviet Union was gonna collapse eventually, Gorbachev at least made it as peaceful as possible. People who hate his work are just nostalgic of their years of youth which were still during the Soviet period.

[@Charioteer94]

this comment system needs perestroika

[@Cumrag69420]

agreed

[@Cumrag69420]

It is either, Fuck communism or govbi da best.

[@abbad707]

Yea

[@spkanava]

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[@RomanKataev]

I was born in the USSR, Now Ilive In Israel. and I can tell you! HE IS A GREAT MAN!!! Thank you Garbochov!!!

[@augakem]

Roman Kataev Except in Lithuania. He sent military to turn of Lithuania's TV towers so Lithuania couldn't send any news of what's going on in USSR. 13 people died... 1991

[@Elmirgtr]

Malaria you are complaining about 13 people, gorbachev's military killed 147 and injured 800 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Lookup: Black january, he even said: "The declaration of a state emergency in Baku was the biggest mistake of my political career"

[@tobythephantom9070]

@Pluskwa fuck off doomer

[@ahcat2685]

Roman Kataev yes. I really admire him. He gave up his power because he doesn’t want people to suffer. He is a great person. 👍 all because he doesn’t choose to continue the authoritarian regime

[@korawichp.2296]

Gorbachev: Kills some Lithuanians and people called him a bad guy for controlling peace Stalin: Hold my vodka.

[@dpf2122]

What a substantive report. I can't imagine a news programme (particularly one on Discovery) airing a 6-minute segment nowadays.

[@parthchauhan38]

has anybody notice the Russian flag in office is upside-down?

[@ivam342]

Serbian* ❤️

[@abbad707]

ye

[@abbad707]

@@ivam342 Ah okay

[@spkanava]

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[@Katracho96]

I think Mikhail Gorbachev is a great guy. I think the reason he is more popular internationally then at home. Was the transition from a soviet command economy to a market economy to the russian nation as whole caused many problems. I think this could have been prevented if the soviet command economy had not lasted for so long.

[@abbad707]

Exactly

[@megathai]

Or he shouldn’t have broken it up in the first place.

[@NikolaAvramov]

In other words: he destroyed hundreds of millions of lives and you think that's somehow great 'cause it wasn't you that had to grow up in poverty and war because of his treason.

[@ycn08]

@@NikolaAvramov now think about Brezhnev, Stalin and Khruschchev

[@ycn08]

@@megathai he was betrayed by other parties and kidnapped so he kinda had to force himself to resign

[@Mannskill]

People in countries such as Estonia actually live better now than they did during the time of the USSR. That's because Estonia has truly succeeded in becoming a democratic country with a free market economy when Russia for example has not.

[@ottokoit]

Mannskill as estonian, I agree

[@ballsofsteelable]

Maybe for the oligarchs, but everyone else is leaving Estonia because there's no work

[@hoxhacat8195]

There is no such thing as a "free" market.

[@spkanava]

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[@Memelander]

This is ancient gold . I hope it survives for future generations to see

[@Diamond-g3u1x]

The disintegration of the Soviet Union, the sorrow of mankind.

[@Qazaqpyn_]

No😂

[@spkanava]

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[@임진웅-i7t]

Rest in Peace... Покойся с миром...

[@MIZORAM_mafaka_hnamte]

Mr. Gorbachev, truly great man.....gave freedom to the citizens

[@steliosmitr8245]

+mafaka hnamte yes the freedom to be run be new capitalist dictators.What a time to be alive!

[@givehope5941]

+BOOM! Explosion Freedom won communism.Get it over

[@steliosmitr8245]

Sky Isblue communism is freedom.If you believe that you live in a free country then propaganda has already won

[@pranavjulakanti7027]

+BOOM! Explosion Why not elaborate?

[@cxkelo8148]

+mafaka hnamte Freedom?You call freedom this freedom?Look at 2016 russia most of them thinking only about vodka

[@justinjameswilson5959]

Gorbachev was a great man who tried his best to make things better for his people. The Soviet Union was already crumbling since Brezhnev. It didn't matter who the leader was, the USSR's collapse was inevitable.

[@brianticas7671]

The russian people should be watching this again. Putin has took russia back to these times again man.

[@serboslav1389]

Yeah, as long as Russia has an incompetent leader the westerners flatter him and like him, just like they did with Yeltsin, but as soon as it's someone competent and sees the west for what it is - an imperialist force which always saw Russia as it's adversary and wanted to weaken it, the westerners call him a "dictator" and a "war criminal".

[@spkanava]

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[@1337BananaL33TVostok]

Must have been very tragic to end this communist project that had been so heavily invested. I can also sense some sadness in Gorbachev's letter

[@Rickyrab]

The Soviet Union fell because the people in charge looked at everyone else, looked at the economy, said, "This isn't going to work. We might as well call it quits." They went ahead and disbanded the country, and that was that. No massive barbarian hordes toppled the USSR; no pandemic slew the citizens, there was no mighty apocalypse. 'Twas a handful of men in suits and ties, sitting in a room, saying, "ok, I'm independent and so are you".

[@jar.m]

Salute to Gorbachev

[@peacemakertripler2624]

Mikhail Gorbachev was the figurehead of hope, Vladimir Putin the figurehead of despair!

[@efftohd]

Thanks for letting us go Gorbachev, we wish we could return the favor.

[@jambudvipi]

What Estonia did wasn’t terrible - it only declared sovereignty within the Union Had all other SSRs declared the same, the USSR would’ve been like the EU is today Instead, Lithuania declared outright independence, setting the precedent for most others SSRs to do so too

[@gavriloprincip9634]

No because most SSR nations were forced to join. The moment they have the chance for freedom they took it.

[@spkanava]

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[@OBrasilo]

@@gavriloprincip9634 Really? Let's see... pretty much all of Central Asia were steppes full of nomads when the Russian Empire expanded there. The Soviet Union inherited those lands. Ukraine consists of former Malorossiya which voluntarily joined the Russian Empire under Bohdan Khmel'nitsky, and Novorossiya which were lands conquered from the Ottoman Turks with cities built by the Russians, and then gifted to Ukraine within the USSR by Lenin, as well as Galicia which was given to Russia in 1919 when the Curzon Line was established as Poland's eastern border, but then Piłsudski decided to take advantage of the Russian Civil War to take the so-called "eastern regions" (kresy wschodnie) east of the Curzon Line by force. That, by the way, included Lithuanian Vilnius. The Baltics I'm quite sure were obtained after Sweden invaded Russia in the early 18th century and was then defeated. Which leaves Belarus which became Russian after the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was partitioned in the 17th century after the Polish invasion of Russia, Moldavia (Bessarabia) which was essentially contested between Romania and Russia until the end of World War II, and to which what is now Transnistria was subsequently added under the USSR. And the Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia), I will concede there. And from what I see - Belarus is divided on the Russia question, so is Ukraine and Georgia, as well as Moldova (Transnistria outright seceded in the early 1990's). There's not that much opposition in most of Central Asia (save for a few smaller countries), Armenenia is also divided, and Azerbaijan is currently pro-Russian. And even in the Baltics, there's this thing of pro-Russian views being forbidden by law, as is any dissent with the official narrative of key events (such as the 1991 evenets at the Vilnius TV tower), and, at least in Lithuania and Latvia, half of the ethnic Russians were outright stripped of citizenship, and since the 2014 Euromaidan coup d'état, Ukraine had taken a very Baltic-like approach as well, which raises the question - if the majority of your country is truly pro-Western and anti-Russian, then why crack down on pro-Russian views (or even on the Russian language) like that? That, if anything, is the behavior of someone who is afraid of losing power should there actually be freedom of speech.

[@wildsurfer12]

This is the best Christmas present the Americans ever received.

[@HLANGL]

It's in this backdrop that Gorbachev emerged to leadership in mid 1980s. He was presented with a system already in decline despite all the propaganda which continued to paint only a false image. Gorbachev understood this, in fact he happened to be the first leader of USSR who honestly accepted this ground reality and proposed the reforms across the whole system in order to cater for these challenges, for which the hardliners quite clearly opposed, the classiest example being the short-lived coup in '91 in which Gorbachev had been detained house-arrested for a couple of days thus preventing/delaying him from signing a treaty which meant to shift the power more to individual republics from the center administered by the central committee of the communist party. Then came its seemingly abrupt downfall in '91, to the shock of many. But, it had certainly not been an incident happened overnight, had not been the fault of Gorbachev alone either. It only put the final nail on the coffin due to a bunch of egoistic members in the so called leadership panel / the central committee of the communist party / the supreme soviet who couldn't get the signal decoded right in time, despite them having more than a decade or so in order to address these quite apparent loopholes in their system and get it fixed, had they really wished.Had the communist party been more tolerant and been keen to implement the reforms/restructuring at least a decade earlier thus giving more time for a smoother transition from the old-fashioned totalitarianism to a modified and adapted form/version which accepted more democracy and open economy, the damage could have been resurrected and the ultimate dissolution of the USSR could have been prevented. Instead, all these unfavourable elements seen even until early '90s only accelerated and ultimately shattered even the last drop of cohesion left in the union, leading to its eventual dissolution in late '91. In fact, if not for a comparatively more tolerant, liberal and open-minded leader like Gorbachev, it could have ended even worse and may have paved the path even to a civil unrest/war. It's needless to say that, given all the mass-destruction weaponry USSR already had by early '90s unlike during 1918-1923 when the previous civil war had erupted immediately after the revolutions in 1917, the damage could have been huge. After all, one cannot expect any reasonable and fair judgement from the central committee of a ruling system led by one party, who had been quite accustomed to the monopoly for decades, especially given the way how ruthlessly and mercilessly they had crushed everything which they had thought would have got in their way in setting up the system during 1918-1923. The way they had executed the Russian royal family Romanovs in July 1918, then the even brutal murder of its extended family the following day, how they had simply turned their bind eye to the great famine in Ukraine in 1930s leaving millions to die in starvation, the way they shot the suspects and even their own people deported to Siberia in the era of Stalin, ..., the list might go on for anyone to have at least a glimpse on how ruthless and merciless the whole system had been since the time of its forefathers, though most of these had subdued to a considerable extent with the demise of Stalin in 1953. Still, the central committee of the communist party were not entirely free of this mindset even into early '90s, that's exactly why they deliberately blocked Gorbachev from proceeding with the implementation of the certain reforms, and purposely delayed transferring/decentralizing the power even to the few democratically elected bodies/republics. They simply wanted to block or to at least delay the democracy and open/free economy entering into the system so that they could proceed with the same closed-door authoritarianism at the center as long as they wished. As already mentioned, if not for a comparatively more tolerant, liberal and open-minded leader like Gorbachev, it could have ended even worse and may have paved the path to even a civil unrest/war had this same system continued for few more years without any reforms implemented. To me, the only blunder made by Gorbachev had been that he too took some step back with certain reforms and delayed them a bit too long into late '80s and early '90s, may be on the advice of the central committee / supreme soviet who held the authority, but that delay had been critical at least due to two reasons. Firstly, it did further squeeze the time allowed for such a transition to materialize. You cannot expect to shake such a huge & long-persisted system overnight, so you may have to initiate it at least earlier so that it would provide enough space and time for the transition to materialize. Unfortunately, the delay in implementing the reforms further squeezed the time left for transition, so the system didn't get the enough time to adapt to these changes. Secondly, even the people who backed the reforms became frustrated with Gorbachev and they too started to interpret the the delay as a failure of him to keep his promises. As a result, Gorbachev almost lost the support from either end, while the USSR crept further into turmoil day by day. With the coup triggered from within his own party in 1991, he could no longer fully trust them either. So, with all these, he had no option but to dissolve the union, at least that would have saved the country from entering an era of internal power struggle which would have cost the lives of millions in the end. So, though Mikhail Gorbachev may not have been a leader who had been perfect and infallible, he alone should not be held responsible for this ultimate end. Sometimes, you get the impression that he still happens to be considered the scapegoat of this whole saga, which is not fair given the fact that he still managed to at least end it peacefully considering the greater good without being confined to the interest of his party members alone.

[@maxmillianwiegel1643]

For so many, at last, the nightmare was ended. They could at last, breathe and build their own destiny.

[@dobricavasic2861]

RIP MIKHAIL GORBACHEV! WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOU! PRESS F TO PAY RESPECTS!

[@ODDinaryPerson]

Rip and F

[@loona_mew]

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[@RamanNoodles01]

F

[@spkanava]

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[@nikolozgilles]

F

[@ionelpatrunjel5536]

4:43 karl marx become a barber in moscova

[@LH-on4bz]

Marx was German

[@LH-on4bz]

@w h y Was a joke? Holy 5 iq humor

[@Memelander]

@@LH-on4bz r/woosh

[@spkanava]

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[@brianticas7671]

Damn those male soviet barbers look like they did a better job as barbers than what we had here in the usa in the 90s.

[@chessdude184]

Rest In Peace bro. Take it easy up there in Heaven

[@Mr.miaUwU]

no

[@PianoCubeYT]

yes

[@ODDinaryPerson]

Rip

[@spkanava]

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[@krle7970]

But….he was communist and so atheist.

[@wildbill9919]

5:43 l wonder who has that flag today.

[@amanwhocareaboutfeels2591]

I think its placed on museum.

[@spkanava]

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[@willkretz1571]

Why isn't this event talked about more? Was the end of a 45 year post WW2 era.

[@ryanissa3353]

0:37 best shot ever

[@MrSpasticdancer]

"if things get worse in the future, then people will remember him with good feelings". 4:07

[@millitarykay09official54]

When the world in shock: The biggest super power and the largest population(depends in your point of view) this country the first and final actual communist country that lived on during 74 years (if your counting 1917) it was an honor for all the Soviet veterans serving in this glorious country.

[@hoxhacat8195]

Communism involves a stateless, classless, moneyless society with the means of production held in common, a lack of commodity production which refers to producing things to be sold, a gift economy, "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" as Marx had worded it, the "withering away of state" as Engels had worded, to achieve a "Communist-Society" as Marx had called it. The nations which you most likely refer to as "Communist" are/were only Socialist and thus merely in the transitory stage between Capitalism and Communism. Socialism has done many good things improved literacy, education, healthcare, rights for minorities, rights for women, standards of living, qualities of life, caloric intake, lifespan, etc. They have also turned feudal backwaters into economic superpowers such as in the Soviet Union's case. According to a study called "Capitalism, Socialism and the Physical Quality of Life" by H. Waitzkin and S. Cereseto PhD published by the World Bank, given equal levels of economic development, Socialist nations had higher standards of living than Capitalist nations, also according to that same study, given equal levels of economic development, Socialist nations had higher levels of caloric intake than Capitalist ones, meaning contrary to popular belief, people in Socialist nations actually ate more food. That study can be found on various .gov and .org sites and has PDFs for you to download, if you want to read it. All of this information can be found from various other sources as well, physical and digital. Socialism had also turns nations into military superpowers such as in the Soviet Union's case. Planned economies are actually proven to be more efficient than markets such as in the case of Project CyberSyn where they used a computer planned economy, this was decades ago in Chile, think about what modern computers with modern computing capabilities could do! The reason for some Socialist nations having bad economies is NOT a fault of Socialism, it is often caused by economic embargoes, sanctions and other methods of destabilizing their economies caused by the United States, or the loss of some of the nations' biggest trade partners such as the DPRK(North Korea)'s economy ranking after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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[@houstonwehaveaproblem4187]

This was probably one of the best Christmas presents America has ever got.

[@Texassince1836]

Not really, US/Soviet relations were going great after the fall of the Berlin wall

[@ItsAstie]

yeah now the US has to deal with an ex-kgb agent being a president, USSR never left.

[@houstonwehaveaproblem4187]

​@@ItsAstieUnfortunately you're correct

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[@Madridy1996]

*Therapist recommends me not to watch or read sad stories. Me:

[@blagoevski336]

Sad? This cured my sadness and made by day

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[@zacharybrand8145]

Gorbachev! What a great man!

[@greekguy5115]

Mikhail Gorbachev Is the biggest U.S.S.R. traitor

[@zacharybrand8145]

GreeK Guy He saved the Soviet Union!

[@artursfilipovs7453]

Zachary Brand he destroyed it

[@thatonekimi3691]

Communism destroyed ussr

[@richmondolivares5788]

@@greekguy5115lol

[@FekalistaGrzybowory-lz8lh]

It was a very saddest day for the millions of the soviet citizens, for comrades... 😔

[@FischerDecber]

Homem inesquecível, de importância mundial!

[@oussamajt7099]

THIS STILL HURTS..

[@FekalistaGrzybowory-lz8lh]

Yes, comrade

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[@et34t34fdf]

One thing you can say about the USSR/Russia, they handled the issue of nuclear weapons well.

[@oliverhakim414]

The USSR should’ve continued to last for longer. It’s sad to see it go

[@Balnazzardi]

And to think what has happend over the past year......compare that to this speech: "We are open to the world, we are no longer interfering with other countries' affairs. We are not using our national force outside

[@IR-xy3ij]

At the time Russia was weak from all the political chaos but in recent years they seemed to have pulled their shit together a lot more. Overseas meddling will always happen when a country gains certain amounts of power, the best example is China who just opened its first overseas military base.

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[@OBrasilo]

Ah yes, because the events were totally not the result of the US and the EU interfering with that country's affairs.

[@Neteruk]

This guy handed the USSR back to the Tsars, and fucked up the dream of a people and their secured fortress.

[@wildbill9919]

30 years ago today.

[@juliusnepos6013]

Yeah

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[@joerified9553]

It wasn’t Yeltsin’s fault the Soviet Union collapsed, well kind of. Gorbachev gave the Soviet people a lot of power. That was when Yeltsin had his chance. He used that power to sign a deal with Belarus and Ukraine to dissolve the Soviet Union into 15 independent republics. The Soviet Union was then dissolved and a country was born in the hands of Boris Yeltsin.

[@gamingman1993]

that's why it is his fault

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[@lucasworktv]

He’s a hero! True hero!!!!

[@hpgames8845]

Hope your country gets a leader like Gorbachev

[@lucasworktv]

@@hpgames8845 im Russian, we had a leader like him 🙏😎

[@NctLenovobilgisayar]

@@lucasworktv you are king bro he couldnt reply 😂😂

[@lucasworktv]

@@NctLenovobilgisayar 😂

[@casparpolitman]

sorry but my family is from the eastern block, they only said good thing about the past, socialist governement were not perfect, but they were good, and they were only normal worker, not rich party member

[@elmergonzales5232]

Rest in peace Sir

[@wangoyima2430]

Long Live his leadership legacies, he was one of the world leader who has "freed and released" the other oppressed and enslaved "ethnic groups" under the Greater Soviet Union Iron-Fist dictatorship rule, for instance the enslaved ethnic groups such as Latvia and others had sought to gain their own self-autonomous independence in 1991 and thanking God former President MG for giving them an openness door to determine their own self-autonomous government powers by themselves rather than being misruled and ruled by the autocratic Soviet Union regime. 1991 was a cheerful moment that has brought a significant political limestone changes throughout the Europe continent and most ethnic groups who are being unfairly enslaved and oppressed by the autocratic Red Dragon Iron-Fist dictatorship rule had runaway with their naked bodies to wear their own new clothes ( in other words the ethnic groups Latvia and others were running away from their ruthless dictatorship Godmother SSSR regime to establish their own new self-autonomous independence in 1991.) What a relieve, eh? Long Live the former Soviet Union Russian Empire.

[@charlieflowers3673]

Rest In Peace brother you will be remembered forever for your efforts and accomplishments fly high

[@bforthigh1617]

The socialist system was actually super successful, particularly in the 50s, 60s, ane 70s. The market reforms in the 80 drew disastrous results which led to a corrupt oligarchy and the completely avoidable fall of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev is not a hero. His legacy? Russia's GDP dropped by 40%. Real wages halved. Poverty ballooned from 2.2 million in 1987-88 to 66 million in 1993-95. Millions died under the brutal regime of privatization and shock therapy. Half a million women were trafficked into sexual slavery. That's called bringing freedom to Eastern Europe. Even Ukrainians don't like Gorby. It's baffling to me how Yeltsin and Gorbachev are portrayed as heroes by the west. The average American thinks Gorbachev is a great man. That's just pure ignorance to be honest. I grew up in the USA and I'm used to hearing people say things like "all the USSR leaders were bad except for Gorbachev". Meanwhile in Eastern Europe he's viewed a lot less favorably. People who stand with Ukraine should know that even Ukrainians don't like Gorbachev. If you're someone who praises gorbachev for his role in dissolving the USSR, but hate Putin at the same time then that's just a classic case of "i hate the problems but the causes, the causes are very good". Putin was appointed by Boris Yeltsin to be his successor. Boris Yeltsin was the corrupt president of the Russian federation in the 90s. He was basically a western puppet and was wildly unpopular; homeboy had an approval rating of 6 percent. The communist party was actually poised to win the 1996 election, but the USA rigged it. Americans actually rigged Russian elections, but then complain about Russia supposedly rigging the 2016 American election. The whole Trump being Putin's puppet was actually a made up narrative of the MSM and normies still cling to this narrative despite it being debunked a million times over. The Mueller report found absolutely nothing.

[@murtc1595]

@@bforthigh1617 Economic stagnation in Russia began in the late 1960s, after Khruschev was removed, and long before reforms were carried out. What Gorbachev did was simply expose the cracks in the already collapsing system.

[@rym9_928]

Gorbachev wasn’t that great. He said he would make the Soviet Union the greatest country but made it worse. You think he was a great president because your an American and he ended the Cold War.

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[@bouji_]

His biggest "accomplishment" has been a state of perpetual civil war and conflict among former Soviet constituent republics in Russia's immediate frontier; and of course, the irony is that basically every single republic went back to their own versions of either autocracy or outright totalitarian dictatorships.

[@limzhihang5830]

30 years have passed. Hows the 90-year-old Mikhail Gorbachev now? 25 December 2021, Saturday.

[@whatslifespurpose]

I am a Marxist myself, but how can you be anything you want in life if you are not able to speak and question everything?

[@RedAndBlackIDress]

The only reason why he did this was to avoid having A civil War with Nukes

[@NikolaAvramov]

He did this because his MI6 handlers intimidated him and ordered him to do it.

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[@thuylinhnguyenly4945]

He is one of the few leaders who actually upholds values of humanity. It's unbelievable and interesting that he's still alive. I've watched other interview of his and he seems to be a kind, humble grandpa. May God bless him always. Sending love and hope in 2022.

[@mikhail6884]

I was named after him in January 1992.

[@spaghettiking7312]

So sad in hindsight.

[@maxoconnor5087]

A man with good intentions but his environment prevented him from following through on such intentions.

[@HLANGL]

Despite all the nostalgia associated with the USSR and the image of it which had been portrayed by the literature published as part of their Soviet propaganda, the former union had never been either the most infallible regime or the most just society it had been depicted to be. It's true that this former global force had a lot of positives with so many achievements under its belt, it had played a crucial role in the political history too, yet it had too many negatives too inherently built into its system which may have led to the questioning of the mere presence of such a system had it been able to exist even unto this day without any reforms/restructuring whatsoever which it had badly needed even given the context prevailed at least a half a century back in early 1970s. Having said that, there are certain countries with much worse systems which continue to exist even to this day, true, but here we're discussing of USSR, not of any of the other lesser mortals. So, the expectations had been high to begin with. In contrast to other more authoritarian leaders of USSR who had preceded him, Mikhail Gorbachev had been much more tolerant, liberal and open-minded, and seemed to have been blessed with a more down-to-earth, pleasant & fair personality too. It's not merely for his fault that USSR collapsed in the end, it had been bound to collapse from within, due to certain unfavourable factors which had been left untouched for decades, mostly by the leaders who had preceded him. In fact, if not for his predecessors and some of his contemporary hardliners too, who firmly opposed and purposely delayed any political/constitutional and economic reforms/restructuring and were simply keen on continuing with the decades-old existed system instead, at least a modified and more adapted form/version of USSR would have survived well into this 21st century too. Though USSR had become a true global force almost in par with USA in many aspects, especially after the reign of Joseph Stalin, the entirely totalitarian dictatorship and the absence of even an ounce of democracy in the system meant that the general public and most of its comparatively smaller republics had never been comfortable with it. The internal tension had been continuously gathering certain momentum for decades. leading to a point, if left unaddressed, beyond resurrection. In the mean time, the economy of USSR had become quite stagnant since 1960s, everything had been quite overly-controlled by the central power which had been nothing but a panel of hardliners who took all their decisions behind closed-doors based on their strict ideology more often than not, and the general public had been tensed and stressed under these circumstances for generations without any resolution in the vicinity. The central committee of the communist party had the unquestionable authority, and the people had only to adhere to a certain set protocol from their birth to demise for the survival without any alternative/option left in the vicinity. USSR, as a whole, had produced results. Its propaganda marched with its achievements. But, despite all this bandwagon, the lives of general public had become nothing but state-controlled objects lacking much freedom. They had restrictions on housing, on land ownership, on income/commerce, on travel, ..., basically on most aspects of life. The specifics may take weeks and months and years to be discussed, yet in a nutshell, the whole system had been rotten into a state which had been marching and getting ever so precariously closer to a civil unrest and an eventual collapse beyond resurrection. In short, they should have brought in more democracy and the provisions for more open economy to their system much earlier to keep up with the global trend/s, but only the period of denial in that regard by their leaders dragged far too long instead. Rather than the firm ambition to proceed with the same one-party closed-door authoritarian system backed by the strictly hard-line political ideology far too long well into late 1980s, if its former leaders had the vision and the flexibility to honestly evaluate the whole system and then introduce/implement at least the most needed changes/reforms/restructuring to it, may be at least a decade earlier to its dissolution, we could have witnessed a more adapted and refined version of it with at least a fair degree of democracy and at least somewhat more open economy even today, but it was not to be. Its leaders rather opted it to be a one-gear maniac lacking the smoothness, the flexibility and the adaptability, instead of transforming it to a more flexible multi-gear system capable of a smoother run adapting to the environment it's in under all-weather conditions.

[@mmmr407]

Lesson learnt by Chinese communist leaders from Gorbhachev: You should be very careful and pre-planned, while applying your theory in your practical life and you should be prepared to deal with any eventuality in the the due course.

[@chip599XX_VGRLeader]

December 25 1991 Christmas Day and Collapsed of the USSR

[@taraldomland8657]

It’s sad that Russia didn’t keep Gorbachev

[@lyudmila2882]

Have to agree. Tragic for them and the world and Ukraine.

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[@eseitewelde4399]

A tragic day. This enshrined neoliberal capitalism as the only way to live. It did not have to be this way. There will never be a comeback from this. The future is lost forever.

[@nikolozgilles]

How pessimistic

[@tripreport6981]

It's the leader's fault because of the Soviet Dissolution. There were multiple ways of saving Communism and both the Party, but Mikhail was strongly brain-washed by the people who demonstrated in 1989. Democracy establishment wasn't a bad idea. But it's a strong transition. He has should first plan everything and actually keep the Communist Party alive. I still respect him.

[@amx_940]

I don't think it works in Communism. Any small mistake leading to evil people seizing power of the party would have destroyed the plan. Communisn means one party universal power, you don't play with that, you end it asap.

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[@AngleInTheNorth]

This whole video in short : Dude..... SO Uncool

[@MlSSVlPERA]

bebby

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[@mikhail6884]

the reason why Gorbachev was ousted is because people plot against him. they want the power to themselves, while Gorbachev just wants to help the Russian People.

[@ROONTANG]

At the end I thought the reporter said his surname was Marx ... how ironic that'd be!

[@peterkehoe1984]

His name is (was) Simon Marks.

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[@thesceptic1018]

He gave you a chance and you blew it

[@nestorveliraj4366]

The saddest moment in the history of earth

[@ActiveDodger]

He did so much but here we are...

[@islamicjamahiriyah9201]

I'm crying

[@etaoin-shrdlu]

exactly, the 14 republics of the former USSR don't live any better than they did in the Soviet Union. America had confused the world into thinking it was the best country in the world. I remember back in the USSR where everyone was talking about the american dream and how they wanted democracy. When the USSR fell they pulled down the statue of lenin in my town. I died inside. Everyone lost their money. Now I live in fucking deep shit. All my friends miss the Soviet Union. I do too.

[@medaminebourghida916]

He died yesterday

[@JohnDoe-ne6fo]

After this, He got to 'privatize' his Moscow apartment and dacha for free. While Soviet people were in breadlines. Yeltsin should have said no and sent him to exile in Siberia.

[@BumBanditt]

He was the only president for russia that actually improved it.. Everyone else fucked it

[@mizukami999]

+Nick Saxon He totally screwed up with economy and led the country to collapse. That's an example of un-improvement.

[@BumBanditt]

mizukami999 Lol what, did you live in the Soviet Union during that time? You clearly don't know anything

[@mizukami999]

Nick Saxon Pff. Too much clarity is not always right.

[@thalassin4129]

+Nick Saxon Seems like his reforms were too late to works. You can't make a plan grow back when parasits already ate its roots

[@hoxhacat8195]

Lenin and Stalin never did anything?

[@sriandayanianilee1243]

What's a metter with you, Michael Gorbachev?

[@oussamajt7099]

The lesson here Gorbachev, don't try to fix what ain't broken

[@imgonewiththewindfab]

YOU CAN DO THIS MEDVEDEV... IF YOU ARE NOT SCARED TO TAKE THE POWER... TAKE IT NOW... YOU HAVE IT IN YOU.... YOU CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING WITH THE HELP OF THE OLIGARCHS...

[@huangliuying2259]

Well, I guess it's the best Christmas gift ever in 20th century.

[@G-Man-half-life]

I wonder how history would have changed if the USSR survived and was still around now in 2024. ???

[@mkl62]

December 26, 1991.

[@Infamous_ytt]

Rip , my man he died tonight.

[@TheGamerAtticus]

Worst Christmas ever *Im not communist*

[@henrykstopikowski5379]

Gorbachev only wanted to maintain power and did his best to be a leader. That is why it is absurd for me to present him as a good politician and leader of such a large country. He didn't worry about the Russians. He saw himself as a leader but for the Russians he was not a leader. Western leaders did not know his intentions exactly and thought he was a man of providence. He left because he had to, but he still thought that this system was the best in the world. And it was not so. This system has failed because it has humiliated people and failed to achieve their expectations.

[@Retrofire-47]

"we are open to the world, we are no longer interfering in other countries' affairs." Didn't last long, did it?

[@OBrasilo]

They tried. All the West had to do was to disband NATO. After all, with the USSR gone, what exactly was the purpose of NATO? But not only did they not, they began expanding it eastwards in violation to what they had promised to Gorbachev and what they were telling Yeltsin. Putin told them in 2007 - the expansion ends here, Ukraine and Georgia are too far to the east for us to just look the other way as they enter NATO. But no, the West continued. This is now the result. And the West is now doing the exact same thing in East Asia - arming Taiwan, looking the other way as Japan rearms, etc. Then when China also decides they've had enough and tears Taiwan a new one, we're again going to be hearing about how it was unprovoked, despite numerous prior warnings from China that were not heeded. Also, you expect Russia and China not to interfer in other countries' affairs while the West openly does... who bombed Yugoslavia in 1999 and then unilaterally seceded Kosovo from Serbia (and built the Bondsteel military base there) in 2008, in violation of the UN resolution? Who backed the Euromaidan coup in Kiev in 2013-14? Whose European affairs vice secretary and ambassador in Kiev were those in that leaked phone call that ended with the lady saying "F**k the EU"? Who bombed Nord Stream 1 and 2? Who invaded Iraq (twice!) and Afghanistan? Who came to Libya, saw, and then Gaddafi died? Who is keeping Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran under harsh sanctions to this day? Whose ambassador in Slovenia in early 2011 summoned all the parties in parliament and told them who must form the government coalition (which is why the people's choice, Zoran Janković, who won the election, never got a chance)? Who is constantly arming Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan? Who is keeping their military base in Okinawa despite the protesting people and whose soldiers there keep raping women and even 12-year-old girls? So please, spare me the hypocrisy. Russia and China are no saints, but to hate them for the same stuff you're blatantly forgiving the US, etc. for doing, is nothing but pure hypocrisy.

[@philippan9252]

Always warms my heart up

[@ilovemuslimfood666]

One of the barbers looks like a younger version of Karl Marx!

[@GypsieGaming]

he my nigga id for sure let him in the blunt circle

[@nexhipmuraj6674]

A GREAT MAN! LONG LIVE M.GORBACHEV!Respectfuly!From Albania.

[@stummstefan9735]

it was a bad idea to turn on the subtitles XD