Mikhail Gorbachev on the last days of the Soviet Union

In December 1991 Ted Koppel interviewed the Soviet President at the Kremlin as the USSR ceased to exist. The man who oversaw the dissolution of a Cold War superpower (who died this week at age 91) offered a Russian fable to help explain his country's fate.
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[@m4ssee]

"People born, people suffer, and people die" Such a bleak yet beautiful and accurate way of seeing life.

[@fggamesoft4949]

Yeah, a lot could be simples avoided if people get the a good ideia of life

[@lochnessmonster5149]

Straight from the atheist ethos.

[@Vifnis]

When you have to summarize Russian Lit.

[@OddReview]

Mikhail Gorbachev, The most underrated, underappreciated and under respected man to have ever lived.

[@lucasworktv]

Agree

[@raultalmon1467]

True

[@CelabroSpace]

Sad that for the last 30 years his country hated him

[@user-px6ku9tx5s]

@@CelabroSpace we hate him because he caused millions to die in wars at the borders of former USSR and millions to not be born He will burn in hell like no other human had before

[@user-px6ku9tx5s]

He served the West and that's why only they praise him

[@terintiaflavius3349]

He knew that the USSR could not be saved so attempted to do a controlled collapse. Unfortunately many Russians refuse to recognize that it couldn't be saved. He was a good man living in a difficult situation. May he be rewarded in Heaven as he was never rewarded in life.

[@Cyber-Gigachad]

He admits that he had tried his hardest, he said that if it weren't for the coup plotters trying to take over the soviet union, the new union treaty would have worked, and the new union would probably still be here, and we wouldn't be in the war we are in right now.

[@mp443]

Он предал СССР

[@Calintz3]

​@@mp443 it was boris yelstin it was always boris Yeltsin not Gorbachev and communism will always lead to the downfall

[@aegontan686]

1:30 This is the CLOSEST thing I have heard to Gorbachev speaking English. He said a simple "Hello"

[@abuomarr]

No he said "aloo" its like a hello but it's used but its used a lot by non americans on the phone its like the "phone hello (ello)" It's only used on phones

[@ilmsff7]

It is said he could speak and understand English, but always spoke in his mother tongue during summit meetings. When Reagan is speaking and he's standing off to the side, you can see him comprehending what Reagan is saying.

[@heberpelagio7161]

Taking this opportunity, I compare the process of radical opening led by M. Gorbachev with the timid and moderate opening led by N. Khrushchev. That is why, while Khrushchev's opening is historically defined as a de-Stalinization, Gorbachev's would have implied - for me - a kind of "de-Leninization" of the Soviet state, to the point where the U.S.S.R (created by Lenin) ceased to exist. Unfortunately, the rapprochement between Moscow and Washington that began in the time of Reagan and Gorbachev suffered a gradual setback after the Clinton administration.

[@kamranrowshandel6395]

Ok but like politics is supposed to be expected to have momentum and succession. de-Stalinization and de-Leninization are too tautological to be discussed, really. In other words: If I make another version of Craigslist 1000 times where only one thing is offered in the market and it can only be bought with each new market's own cryptocurrency....will it be 2011 again, and then will we be able to go further back in time to when I felt safe? Can I say this is post-Gorbachev? kzbin.info/www/bejne/imqUf3yBi82hlZY

[@inGodtrust5hmkj4]

It always amazes me how open Gorbachev was at a time of so much uncertainty.

[@ruslannunez4449]

Gorbachev isn't dead .He's quietly quiting.

[@joekerr8334]

He was a incredibly fkwit and now the Russians and Ukrainians have to pay with their lives on his terrible mistakes !

[@lloydkline1518]

❤️Gorbschev ,Gorbachev live on youtube forever

[@marianhilt3418]

May his soul rest in peace

[@user-dn2ye7xt6g]

Он будет гнить в аду.

[@mastersafari5349]

@@user-dn2ye7xt6g как и каждый советский коммунист-атеист)

[@RobertGaz]

Rest in peace Mikhail Gorbachev. You did a lot for your country. Thank you.

[@Redline0332]

Tell that to people in post Soviet republics who survived 90s

[@Remix2366]

Yeah,like ruin it

[@yomastelbo8753]

@@Remix2366 Remix 236 nailed information is very convincing and reliable

[@raultalmon1467]

@@Redline0332 that was not hes country

[@Deltasquadformingup]

​@@Remix2366many Russians,Belarussians,Ukranians,Estonians,Latvians,Lithuanians,Georgians,Azerbaijans Kazakhstanians, Kyrgyzstanins and Turkmenistans,Polish,Germans,Hungarians,Mongolians, Czechs,Slovaks,Bulgarians, Romanians, Moldovan, Serbs,Bosnians,Croats,Slovenians and many more all agree fall of ussr was a good change the government just wasn't there anymore wasn't serving the people anymore and change needed to happen

[@rekaroob2589]

To all Americans: You have to know how grateful we here in Central-Eastern Europe are for Gorbachov. He wasn't of course our saver but he let us have freedom which was exeptional in that region of Europe in the 20th century. I am a huge anti-communist, my family suffered incredibly during the Soviet times. (Concentration camp, given away their everything, discrimination in their whole life) But my parents Always tell how the whole country (Hungary)became shocked and a bit hopeful, cause they sensed how different Gorbachev was from Stalin, Hrushkov Brezhnev and the other communist leaders. The Soviet Union would have collapsed of course but it would never happen without blood and with peace if another leader was in power. May you rest in peace, Mr.Gorbachev🤍

[@user-vq2xq3jw5b]

Ваш М. Горбачев - ИУДА!!... 😫😡 .. Горбачев это синоним предательство!!...... 😫😡

[@jeffcamp481]

When I worked in Russia in 1993-1994 I flew with Mikhail! Wh spoke , had a drink, he posed with me for a photograph and autographed some items for my children! He loved his people very much and after talking to the westerners he invited himself to join his people and spent the rest of the time with the Russian people!

[@actic555]

Cool. Would you tell me what was his favorite drink?

[@jeffcamp481]

@@actic555 We both had Johnnie Walker Red Label on the rocks! I can not say it was his favorite drink, but that’s what he asked for and I followed suit!

[@actic555]

@@jeffcamp481 Cool. Do you still have the photograph?

[@jeffcamp481]

@@actic555 Yes, It is framed and in my office!

[@actic555]

@@jeffcamp481 Awesome! God bless.

[@saeedabdelqader9093]

Is good hear Mr. Ted again I was a big fan of his night show on abc news although I forgot the name of the show . One of the best news man ever Mr. COBOL

[@blomegoog]

ABC Nightline

[@saeedabdelqader9093]

@@blomegoog thank you I used to watch it in the eighty every night . The best on tv

[@tedge19]

God bless him 🙏 he was a good man from the UK 🇬🇧

[@80-80.]

He was a great man. He hated Putin to the last. R.I.P.

[@thekingofkingsrp]

Putin should love this man, if it wasn't for him Putin would have never had the opportunity he has had since the end of the USSR. He would have never reached the heights he has in that system.

[@luga718]

@@thekingofkingsrp TRUE!

[@user-uf1wj6ym3v]

非常非常感谢您们的提醒！！！

[@rwboa22]

And now, it's all over.... Margaret "Iron Lady" Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and Mikhail Gorbachev.

[@fatehsinghbedi9042]

And queen Elizabeth joins the group as well

[@Greg-yu4ij]

A great man and a true man of peace.

[@user-ts2ot9dv5e]

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[@AFN.90210]

Rest in peace from Norway

[@jolness1]

Ted is so young! I know it was 30yrs ago but still shocking.

[@philipciaffa6643]

The United States had a tremendous opportunity when the Soviet Union expired to extend a helping hand to the Russian people, a new Marshall Plan to modernize, assist and offer them an alternative economy and prosperity. Instead it was squandered as the sole remaining Superpower shrugged and gloated. The ensuing resentment and loss of prestige enabled Putin and the current state of affairs.

[@fabiobisoglio5667]

I agree.

[@okene]

Germany is probably the most powerful country to ever fall gracefully. Most countries that were once great powers have a strong sense of Nationalism/exceptionalism, perhaps excluding Greece

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@okeneGreece has not been great like that for a millenium really.

[@okene]

@@johnnotrealname8168 I take back what I said about greece. According to PEW research center, Greece was the most nationalistic country in Europe in 2018.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@okene WoW!

[@brianwalsh1401]

Thank god Gorby came along at the right time for that transition to occur. If their had been hard lines in charge who knows how all of that would've went down. Yeltsin was a part of that too but proved to be detrimental in my opinion to what happened in Russian afterwards and was instrumental in getting Putin to be president. It's been down hill ever since. RIP Mr. Gorbachev.

[@Geoplanetjane]

Unfortunately alcohol got the better of Yeltsin

[@artemtulukin13]

As a Russian person, I want to notice the accuracy and insight of your comment

[@freedom4all325]

RIP president Gorbachev

[@walkerpantera]

this was nice. well done piece.

[@vlbogorad]

An ancient Arabic proverb: “on the corpses of lions the dogs celebrate believing they have won.” But dogs are dogs and lions are lions. “

[@noxcube6439]

Pretty cool thank you for sharing

[@Geoplanetjane]

A good one

[@alexandraelizabeth7626]

Can someone explain what he meant with the fable at the end?

[@marcusdamberger]

I think it means. If you wait for everyone to come to a consensus and bring all their opinions and facts the day will never come when you can make a decision based on all that is brought before you. At some point you have to make a decision, if you wait for everyone it will take 25 years like this fable and you will either be at your death bed or gone and irrelevant and made no impact on your people. If we waited around for people like Putin to come to a consensus on what to do with the Soviet Union, men like him would still be desperately holding onto it. Now just 30 years later it looks just like that; Putin trying to relive the glory years of the long gone and dead Soviet Union. It's going to end the same way as the Soviet Union did for Russia, much poorer in the end and broke.

[@hansgoober35]

Whether or not you liked him, you have to admit he was a legend. He changed the world (ultimately for the better).

[@XxSupernatural21xX]

He lead to the deaths of millions upon millions of Russians. He is not a legend

[@imperator692]

If political instability, war, mass unemployment, increase in poverty and crime is "for the better" then yeah, I guess

[@hansgoober35]

That was all Yeltsin

[@imperator692]

@@hansgoober35 He was a part of the reason for all those things, if the USSR remained stable none of it would have happened. All of that is directly attributable to the break up of the USSR.

[@fenderguitars6050]

Rip Gorby ,..a good man ,... from America ,..

[@Hernandez26382]

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[@skyking6989]

The only soviet leader that was actually born in the soviet union

[@alexwells9948]

4:59 To the Sea Turtle Hatchlings in Sea Island Georgia when Sunday Morning continues

[@hinthegroove9740]

My like is to Ted’s work.

[@Luke-me6lz]

He was a good man

[@marxisthumanist8936]

Hero comrade Mikhail

[@boulevard14]

He wasn't a Marxist, buddy.

[@alexanderlang223]

He is such an important person... Perhaps that is why none of the world leaders came to say goodbye to him? From France there was "someone from the consulate", from Germany only a representative of the lowest echelon from the consulate. And... Thats all. And Orban from Bulgaria.

[@jonathanrossddsmhs1271]

First, no leaders are going to travel to Russia while it is at war with Ukraine. Second, Orban is Hungarian.

[@loneexplorama7914]

Just goes to show he was a loser..who sold out his country, instead of reforming it.

[@cyberTV24]

I think it had way more to do with the deteriorating relationship with Russia, if this occurred in say 2019 I think way more world leaders would have showed up instead of just Orban (from Hungary)

[@tanusha6145]

He is a traitor to his country. For this he received the Nobel Prize. But traitors are despised by both their own and others.

[@jakeroberts7435]

Damn, just had to bring Poppy into it. How soon people forget

[@maryannkochanski5777]

He danced on stage and it made him human to me.

[@DanielRivera-cp2oq]

Rest In Peace Gorby at least you tried and the rest of the world thank you💔

[@jimdellavecchia4594]

Yeltsin's briefcase held bottles of vodka, that boozehound

[@user-uf1wj6ym3v]

非常非常感谢您们的支持和指点和警告‼️

[@TheresaPowers]

Ted Koppel - Mad magazines Alfred E. Newman "What, me worry?"

[@lewstone5430]

In looks and intellect.

[@Geoplanetjane]

No, Lew. He was great reporter back when USTV cared about international news.

[@robschannel4512]

He also oversaw the the disaster of Chernobyl. Which they covered up until other countries had issues. Instead of warning right away. He oversaw the invasion of Afghanistan. He was no saint.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

He also sent tanks into Estonia and Georgia when they wanted to secede.

[@allanvanuga9196]

Great video.

[@nancyhey1012]

RIP Mikhail Gorbachev

[@anaheleonoraandradedossant1665]

04-09-2022

[@vivianidelacerda9708]

R.I.P.

[@Hammerhead547]

He was wise enough too know that for russia too live the soviet union had too die, the only other option would've been an unthinkable civil war that would've decimated russia.

[@GonkDroid0923]

Gorbachev never intended to bring down the Soviet Union, but rather, he wanted to simply modernize it, for a 21st century. He wanted to create the United Soviet Sovereign Republics, a new era of the USSR. But unfortunately for him, Boris Yeltsin, his political opponent, sought to bring down the hammer and sickle, and create a capitalist Russia. Yeltsin sought to this by getting his band of rebels together, and started the August Coup, a means to undermine the power of the Kremlin, and Gorbachev. Gorbachev, in defense, sent tanks to stop the madmen, but refused to fire on the fellow Soviet citizens. This highly publicized event, was shown through the Soviet Union, as a sort of "final nail in the coffin". Countries started claiming their independence, and for a short brief 4 days The last remaining bit of the Soviet Union was the Kazak-SSR (modern day Kazakhstan). By Christmas, Gorbachev was forced to resign, and the Soviet Union fell, as a new, Tsarist style Russian Federation tri-color flew high in the Kremlin. Afterward, the newly created countries where facing internal turmoil, from people wanting the Soviet Union back, and the now capitalist governments silencing, not to mention, fighting over territory. this lead to the bloody 90s in the Eastern Bloc. Sadly, with the current Russian president Vladimir Putin, it seems that he wants to create a new Tsarist Russian empire, undermining the very existence of the Soviet Union as a whole, and its purpose. I seriously hope things change for the better....

[@TealAirro]

Yes, the Belovezha Accords was just a huge mistake In general overall, and I say this as a American. It has caused great political instability, economic recesssion, and oligarchic authoritarianism in the post-soviet region. The 1991 Soviet Union referendum showed that the majority of people of the USSR wanted the Union itself to be kept in place just more freedom. But unfortunately, Yeltsin, Yeltsin's colleagues, and the communist hardliners, got in a way of that.

[@johnrussell3755]

good analysis

[@boulevard14]

True, but Gorbachev should still be credited for the USSR's demise. He was the only Soviet leader that wanted change.

[@andrewchavez5455]

Gorbachev was heavily disliked in the Soviet Union because he was ending the very thing that gave people hope. He was loved by the west because he was doing exactly what the west wanted.

[@Blackkray777]

The man who saved the world

[@that_floofy_beauty1981]

In ten days, two famous people died. Mikhail Gorbachev and Queen Elizabeth.

[@JackCallSports]

Bro why his casket open 😭

[@Geoplanetjane]

Open so people could see him.

[@luga718]

It's a tradition.

[@marcusdamberger]

Maybe the same reason so many Russians have dash cams in their cars. If it wasn't recorded for all to see, there is no proof it actually happened.

[@ravindraperera1962]

RIP

[@lucianoosorio5942]

Rip Gorbachev you will be missed. I wanted to meet him in person and talk about the Cold War and etc

[@edyr]

RIP Mikhail Gorbachev That was abrupt.. Still could have Mikhail Gorbachev Peace

[@martinlopez4430]

A Great Russian has passed. I hope a renewed Russian Orthodox Church will give Mr. Gorbachev a fitting high mass as a farewell to this wise man! Blessing to Mother Russia!

[@techenjoyer_cool]

No.

[@techenjoyer_cool]

Stop putin

[@techenjoyer_cool]

But rip gorbachev!

[@dreamer12401]

Really he was a great person who brought the freedom to all the people of the former USSR. Now, seeing what Putin is doing, you understand that Gorbachev is not a traitor, but a great man.

[@jessehoekstra849]

lol people didn’t want end the Soviet Union he was a traitor in people eyes

[@Lee.Hsien-Yung]

Gorbachev made fatal mistakes, especially in reforming politics and the press through glasnost, if perestroika was still ok because economic reform was similar to China in the Deng Xiaoping era.

[@doctorstrangelove9487]

In a bizarre way he did Russia a favor the place was too big and too diverse to function like a well lubed machine.

[@Geoplanetjane]

All inside were subjugated

[@Mdebacle]

As Deng Xiaoping analyzed it, what Russia needed was less glasnost and more perestroika.

[@pandita872]

All condition things are impermanent for all beings in the universe.

[@melweconsultancy4452]

A man of peace unlike the warmongers in the western world...😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@vincentdalisay8045]

He will never be forgotten. He will go down in History as a protagonist. BRAVO🙌👏

[@user-zb6el4ks2b]

wouldn't be nice to have him back in power now ................

[@user-pz1xj9uu2w]

Щедрые у Мишки были подарки. Страну подарил на Рождество. Герой США.

[@user-uf1wj6ym3v]

非常非常感谢您们的警告‼️

[@-RunninNGunnin-]

1991 Christmas must've been the best Christmas for Americans ever in history 😂

[@Armemers]

@Rostondriatime to light up-

[@pewterpirate4560]

Surprised Putin didn't just spit in his casket 🙄

[@alecisback1]

Never forget leslie nielson taught us you could use a rag to wipe off his birthmark

[@dominiquejacquet1344]

There should be good relations between East and West

[@charlesrandolph4549]

Gorbachev did not bring down the wall. The people, in Iron Curtain countries, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and more, did that in 1989. Gorbi was done in 1991.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

EXACTLY

[@Geoplanetjane]

Yes, Gorbachev and his actions, negotiations with the West made it possible for the subjugated people of Eastern Europe and Central Asia to rise up and take control of their futures.

[@luga718]

Because Gorbachev aloud!A regular communist leader arrested everybody(or killed)and send the people to GULAG

[@Greg-yu4ij]

Wait did he declassify those docs before taking them home? (Gorby signs) Too late KGB boys, can’t arrest me, FSB is in charge now

[@Malouco]

WHO WILL HELP STABILIZE EASTERN EUROPE AND FIND A WAY TO LIFT THE IRON WALL TODAY?!

[@terribleTed-ln6cm]

I wish we still had leader's like Ronald Reagan and M.r Gorbachev today...

[@philomelodia]

Reagan was a joke. He pretended to be a leader. An actor, remember? They gave him his lines and he played his part and he looked good on screen. He was not the one really running the show there.

[@daringmore6892]

Together they stole Natalie Wood from her beloved husband Mr. ROBERT WAGNER and family to never see them again, and the US Navy took her on straight path out black sea to russia and one prince son with gorbachev. If you all knew the evil these men have done and still want to do, the evil fbi and los angeles police still try to go after Innocent Robert Wagners wealth and freedom to accuse him and steal him from his family too for their gov crimes they did to him and Mrs. Wood Wagner. Fbi evil california police over 50yrs corrupt working with evil usa president reagan and vp bush to steal women into human traffick like our evil presidents today are still doing.

[@jennymay330]

@@philomelodia was his part bad?

[@philomelodia]

@@jennymay330 pretty irrelevant question. The astounding thing is if the President of the United States, the elected leader that people wanted an office was not the one running the show. He was a puppet who strings were being pulled by people like James Baker, Strom Thurmond and Alexander Haig. We have a similar situation in the White House today. The difference is we don’t have an actor in office so, all the cracks show. We have an old man long past the age any human being should be tasked with such a massive job as president of the worlds premier superpower with hundreds of political operatives pulling his strings every witch way trying to run the country with him as figurehead. Before him, we had a reality TV star who, while mentally sharper, had no business in power and didn’t know what he was doing and was there to sign bills that the republican Congress passed so that he could further their agenda. The vast difference is that Reagan let himself be controlled. Trump did not. Neither will Biden. But, Reagan set the precedent and they have been trying to get somebody just like him in the White House ever since.

[@terribleTed-ln6cm]

@@philomelodia huh?

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[@user-uf1wj6ym3v]

请您们放心！！！

[@nkydn]

My grandma and every sensible person I know hates Mikhail to this day. The rich got richer whilst the poor got poorer.

[@PrussianSteel]

Im sure that was the hypercapitalist reforms of Boris Yeltsin, not Mikhail Gorbachev who only reformed the unions institutions. 🙂

[@enough1494]

RIP. Sad to see what Putin has done after all of Gorbachev’s efforts and advancement!

[@aguerra1381]

If evil is not eliminated it tends to resurface.

[@user-kc6sn8ci6p]

The advancement was a real disaster.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

Rose tinted goggles. Gorbachev's efforts were towards saving a nightmare regime. Thankfully, as well due to unprecedented internal and outside pressures, he failed. That's why he is loved in the West, because he failed. Also of course because the media, academia, and decadent elites loves fawning over him.

[@aguerra1381]

He fought not to save but to CHANGE a nightmare regime. The west loved him because he TRIED.

[@user-dn2ye7xt6g]

Тебе грустно, что варвары перестали грабить Россию и она вновь стала великой.... ну ну.

[@ConoceteaTiMismoGnothiSeauton]

A man from the Providence, as Pope John Paul II called him

[@user-fs4nq7nb9b]

best russian ever, wish all russian be like him

[@janjantimalsina1465]

🙏 🪦

[@jessehoekstra849]

Russian people didn’t like him 74.9 procent was against ending Soviet Union and later he himself admitted that it was to rushed and a lot of Russian ending up suffering

[@lemmykilmister873]

🤔

[@2012photograph]

What Farwell good bye to President Bush Sr. in last day in office

[@Geoplanetjane]

Bush’s funeral in the National Cathedral was magnificent.

[@plz1277]

Putin has a hand in this.

[@lessie8802]

🤣

[@hardytall8386]

He finished the USSR

[@marcusdamberger]

It didn't have much life left in it. He just made sure it dissolved in a more orderly manner, even so they did have a hardline coup attempt near the end of those in denial about the Soviet Union. The eastern block had all but broken away, one country declaring Independence from the Soviet Union after another. There wasn't much to hold onto anymore and it was costing too much, they were going bankrupt.

[@hardytall8386]

@@marcusdamberger simply because of his policy of perestroika and glasnost

[@jitkadvorak8976]

Russland GO!!!!!💋💋💋

[@johnsontunu4071]

Gorbachev shunned becoming rich. Lenin, Ghana’s Nkrumah, and even Stalin similarly never cared for the crazed acquisitive habits and drive in many humans. Khrushchev had denounced political and some other excesses of Stalinism, but he and Brezhnev left the Stalin economic command model practically intact. Massive hydrocarbon sales abroad to earn foreign exchange allowed for a sufficiently comfortable existence of the Soviet economy until oil global prices dropped drastically to as low as eight dollars a barrel, under Gorbachev and Yeltsin. Lenin quickly realized that a pure break with capitalistic practices in the economy would not sustain the Soviet experiment (and no earlier socioeconomic formations have ever suddenly broken clean of the formations pre-existing them!), and he formulated his New Economic Policy (NEP), as a temporary compromise in the socioeconomic sphere, with the communist party resolutely imposing its guiding role. NEP delivered an unprecedented growth in the economic sphere, and in land apportionments. Lenin also introduced democratic centralism, to allow for free discussion and debate of crucial issues before decision-taking at each vertical compartmentalized layer of party structure, before decisions or recommendations are in like manner collectively taken, to be forwarded to higher compartments. Five years after Lenin died, his successor, Stalin, abruptly abandoned NEP, despite its continuing economic success. He also felt democratic centralism to be a threat to his (Stalin’s) aspirations to monopolize power. The territory-annexing, imperialistic czar, Ivan the Terrible, was a much more appealing role model for Joseph Stalin than the staunch anti-imperialist Vladimir Lenin. Lenin himself was too slow and too late in realizing that Stalin’s style of leadership would ultimately make him (Stalin) the gravedigger of Soviet communism, and so ought to not inherit him (Lenin) as leader. (North Korea as a vivid Stalinist museum today attracts no truly patriotic foreigners looking for a model to replace the rapacious Wall Street norm in their homeland). All these issues must have been exercising Gorbachev’s mind long before he assumed the reigns of power in the USSR. His economic reforms should have been started by Khrushchev. And having failed (probably admirably) to use massive violence to preserve the Soviet Union and his own position as supreme leader, it’s now a total anachronism for the current generation of Russians and their political leadership to want to forcibly reconstitute the USSR, more so merely as a geopolitical counterweight to the American imperialists, without any substantial ideological difference. Gorbachev stands for a socialism which doesn’t treat humans as merely cattle to be fed, and with no human rights. What most commentators refer to as Soviet communism should rightly be labeled Stalinism, and it’s categorically rejected by Lenin himself, the founder of the Marxist practice to impose justice in all human affairs on the whole planet. This NEP approach by Lenin, the so-called market Leninism, has been demonstrated by the Chinese to be very much alive and relevant as an alternative to the Westminster-Wall Street greed of exploitation, mass subjugation and impoverishment of the downtrodden in all countries. Gorbachev is a true Leninist, and the cause of Leninist universal justice and prosperity lives on. Science, technology and entrepreneurship shall make the hitherto abstract aspirations of mankind to realize heaven on Earth to gradually become a reality. Let’s not forget that even US President Ronald Reagan once noted publicly that the USA would arrive at socialism before the USSR. His instinct of history and his secret service confidential reports must have developed some Marxian notions in even this staunch capitalist roader. Hail Gorbachevian humanistic socialism!

[@marcusdamberger]

Dude seriously? A dissertation on Soviet economic times from before Gorbachev arrived on the scene, in KZbin comments? A quick synopsis would be much easier to read.. yours is a blog post.

[@55tumbler]

Gorby Gorby

[@1.4142]

He was one of the gorbiest world leaders

[@dnibsallot3927]

Ended the cold war, lol that never happened!

[@Geoplanetjane]

Oh yes it did.

[@ashish_p_sasi]

തായൂളി ഗോർബച്ചേവ്

[@IndianSrMan]

Big nations should think wisely and should show maturity for smaller nations to follow. They should not waste money and energy in arms race. There is no use in our missiles and nuclear bombs. Even an accidental triggering can cause havoc and probably wipe out all life on earth. Even small nuclear radiation leakage can make the whole area uninhabitable forever. Our atmic explosions are nothing compared to nature's black whole and white whole. Even to reach a nearest star we need a spaceship traveling at the speed of light( which we still don't have) and still would take 30 years to reach the star! So we are too small in this universe and there is no point in our arrogance in our technological innovations and military might. Even the best rationalist or a yogi or a scientist( leave aside the most powerful politicians ) doesn't know where he was before birth and where he will be after death. We were given birth by our parents, we suckled our mother's milk, fed by them, took baby steps with their help, leant to speak from syllables , got continuous correction in our speech by them and so there is no point in our so called independent thinking and leading our nations to war as if we were on own right from birth whereas in reality nothing is ours not even our intellect and world leaders should know this first. So we are controlled by a power whether you call it God or not it doesn't matter. We should resolve issues like territorial disputes through dialogues. Religious differences should be accepted except for Islam which preaches violence on others. So Muslims should educate themselves on their religion by reading their religious books in original or translations and become aware how dangerous is Islam to mankind? They may watch the videos of David wood and Apostle prophet which would save them a lot of reading. They should not simply go by convenient lies fed to them by their religious leaders or clerics. Muslims should finally come out of Islam for their own upliftment and for the sake of world peace. All modern technology cannot bring back to life the killed citizens. Also the weapons don't cause direct death but torture us for hours before death is given by mercy of God. After effects if we survive wars are also miserable with all disabilities. We still don't have cure for many diseases. Even now there is no solution for calamities like flood and draught. So what is the use of our flaunting dangerous weapons and threating each other ? Technology and Power are not the beginning and end of any nation's life. Good things in life like pity, sympathy, kindness, love etc are not weak to be looked down upon or frowned upon as being feminine but indicates an individual's and a nation's strength. Even the Covid or monkey pox has not brought us to our senses that just a virus is enough to collapse the whole world and bring us to our knees. What if many such dangerous viruses attack us ? We will still continue with our wars instead of joining together and declaring war on viruses ? We all know any day this earth can be completely destroyed if an asteroid strikes it. So our life is just flicker at the mercy of God or unknown if you don't like the word God. So our energies should be directed to improving the life of mankind. Cooperation with each other is better than bullying and one upman ship and killing each other and that is the final message. If we are looking for a readymade solution to the problems of the world today probably Gandhism meets most of the requirements. Those who mock at Gandhism as anti-technology should know that it is our technology that has polluted the God's world and has caused global warming which is irreversible. Anyway Gandhism is not against technology. Our craze for modern life style and luxury goods has only spoiled our health and caused irreversible damage to the environment. Instead of making life simpler life is made more and more complex. Probably Gandhism solves most of our economic and social problems

[@yuanhantian9232]

Arm race is undesirable, but it would be too naive to trust other groups of people without having enough forces to check and balance them. The rivalry between US and China nowadays would be a great example. Is it just a matter of trust and distrust, violence or non-violence, arm race and non arm race? Perhap not. Can you imagine that all 1.4 billion Chinese people to enjoy same living standard as people in the developed countries. If there's enough resources, that would be great and peaceful. However, the world has entered the phase of "limited stock market". That means, for every cent Chinese people gain in the production of high-profit and high tech products, people in the traditional developed countries would lose it. Therefore, the competition is inevitable. US people have enough incentive to defend their high income and high living standard, whereas Chinese people are working hard to enjoy greater quality of life. That's where conflict arise. Gandhi is a great leader, but we cannot fix our hope on the external force and the conscience of other people. His success is uncopyable. His movement coincided with the surgence of independence of former colonies after WWII and the start of Cold War.

[@IndianSrMan]

@@yuanhantian9232 There are many concerns in your comments and it may not be possible to answer in one go and my answer may not be direct . Anyway here is my reply: Though I am not optimist there is no harm in giving a try to solve the world's problems. For eg. Instead of directly going for reduction of nuclear weapons (considering only the Point that in nuclear war there will not be any winners) the root cause has to be addressed. Probably that is reason the talks on arms reduction between USA and Russia did not move forward. I don't have much historical knowledge of usa Russia conflict. However my own country India's perspective on this issue: Why are we keeping nuclear weapons? It is to counter threat from China and to threaten Pakistan. If both the countries become democratic and secular there may not be any reason for nuclear weapons in future. When they would also democratic and secular it does not matter if some land belongs to them and some people live here instead of there. For eg why usa is not having any conflict with canada ? Why India is not having any conflict with other smaller countries ? Further if Muslims come out Islam half of world's problem will be solved but it can't happen overnight. They may become aware of the facts about their religion slowly and some change may come in a few decades. Needless to say there is a huge economic benefit in world peace as all the countries can reduce their defence budget and direct that money for some thing of common concern to all for eg. To stop global warming, prevent sea pollution etc. and also to create jobs.

[@IndianSrMan]

@@yuanhantian9232 As far economic conflict which you pointed out as reason for arms race I would say Gandhian economy probably solves this problem. He has said "Earth has enough resources to satisfy man's needs but not his greed" i.e. if everyone wants lifestyle of billionaire this earth can't survive. Before expecting rich nation's to give up their wealth to poorer countries the disparity with in each country has to be resolved. Before we expect billionaires to reduce their luxurious life style everyone has to do that to some degree considering people below him. Of course this can't happen by freewill but only by making and enforcement of strict laws. Simplicity and uncomplicated life can improve health and reduce stress. Luxury leads to destruction of nature and spoils our health. Instead having luxurious life and burning calories on tread mills we should do physical work. When India was poor we had good health but now with raise in living standards our people's health has gone down. Today we have huge percentage of population that is diabetic. I read somewhere luxurious life style and use of plastic leads to impotence in men. So there is good in going backwards. United Nations can make a draft law on reduction of luxurious life and circulate that to all countries. USA and other westren countries instead of simply holding some global meeting on on green Earth should accept Gandhian economy first.

[@bryancomeaux4961]

I invented this

[@JediMik]

России на пользу слабый лидер, сомневающийся. но нам после Михаила не везёт, или мы сами выбираем не тех

[@andrijgonchar5010]

In principle, a multinational state is not stable, which is why the British, French, Portuguese empires and the Soviet Union collapsed. To resolve the contradiction between the right to self-determination and the inviolability of borders, these principles must be divided territorially: If the territory is the ethnic center of a people, then the right to self-determination applies, if not, then the inviolability of borders. There are ethnic centers of Abkhazians in Abkhazia and Сhechnians in Chechnya, so they have the right to self-determination. The ethnic center of the Ossetians is in North Ossetia, not in the Tskhinvali region of Georgia, so let them seek independence in the real, North Ossetia, and not in South Ossetia (Tskhinvali region) , which is not Ossetia at all. They are recent immigrants there. In Karabakh, there is not a center, but a periphery of Armenians, as in the Krasnodar Territory, where there are many of them.

[@villavan]

Have you heard about India😏

[@ekop1778]

SHOULD OF BEEN PUTIN! IN THAT PINE BOX NOW HES LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THEM NUKES

[@mrwaterschoot5617]

i have agree rutin tutin pollutin putin so be in a pine box from the virgin pine forests in Siberia. i saw it on discovery in a very interesting show. siberian cut. logging by an american in siberia. i saw clear pine boards from russia in a pro lumber yard in east hartford connecticut USA. gota go.

[@MrJohnnySins]

Rip gorby

[@_vallee_5190]

Gorbachev although having good intentions, his reign was still a partial disaster, he over saw the dissolution of the USSR which would lead to ethnic genocide in regions like Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Uzbekistan, and Moldova, he oversaw the rise of the Russian oligarch's and capitalist class that currently dominate Russia, completely obliterated the Soviet/Russian housing and medical system, and oversaw the disintegration of the USSR structure. Despite his intentions, his reign was fairly disastrous. Much of the blame for these actions are due to the August Coup and not Gorbachev himself but it is not possible to overlook his actions in the matter. Gorbachev still none the less did good such as de-militarization and scientific endevours, but his actions largely caused the opposite intended effect.

[@barbarakauppi9915]

Lol!! You have absolutely no idea what you're prattling on about. MG didn't 'oversee' the oligarchs, that was entirely Putler and his puppet Boris. MG was long gone. Stick to playing your video games. Spewing such obvious and absurd rubbish embarrasses the entire internet just for having you on it.

[@_vallee_5190]

@@barbarakauppi9915 His reign did in fact oversee it, the first person to own one million rubles as an example came about during Gorbachev reign, wealth accumulation in the USSR began with Gorbachev. The organized Russian Mafia likewise began gaining power in the late 1980s, during Gorbachev's reign. Moreover your putrid and pedantic response really exemplifies the fact that you have no argument.

[@austinbaxter7427]

@@barbarakauppi9915 just stating some facts to counter his claim would of been fine, no need for toxicity.

[@robtru84]

Current Soviet Union President Vladimir Putin

[@user-uf1wj6ym3v]

非常非常感谢您们的支持和提醒！！！

[@elizabethhurtado2829]

🕯🕯🕯😊🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

[@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings]

Mind Begs the Question: NATO,Corporates capable to Boycott Russia over Ukraine/Petro Dollar NATO,Corporates not capable to Boycott China over Concentration Camps?