Gorbachev At 90, Looking Back At A Career That Changed History
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- Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who turns 90 on March 2, presided over the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the end of the Cold War.
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The first and last Soviet Premier to be born in the USSR
Actually General secretary but ok
FROM ENGLAND LOVERLY MAN MAY YOUR KIND LIVE ON
He wasn't the Premier (Prime Minister, Head of Government), he was Leader of the Communist Party and head of state -> Chairman of the (Presidium of the) Supreme Soviet and then President of the Soviet Union.
@@michaelpocci1876 yeah
Worst traitor in the history
To think that Gorbachev is still alive while others such as Reagan, Bush sr, Thatcher, Kohl and Yeltsin are dead
Bush SR., Yeltsin, Helmut Kohl, Reagan, And Margaret Thatcher were born before him, it's super logical
@@flyingsandwich9987 True, but Kohl was only one year older and Yeltsin just one month in comparison with Gorby
Jimmy Carter is still alive.
@@flyingsandwich9987 laughs in Mahathir
Tough country boy, that's all.
Just realized he's older than his predecessors
Oh shit youre right
Modern day Russia has a low male life expectancy like an okay African nation.
eyy it's flagandanthemguy!
@@a-10wartaboo77 And what was it during the USSR?
@@SirDankleberry medieval? Nah
Dang, he's still alive. A pivotal figure in world history.
And what did he get in retern, a stab in the back from yeltsin
Turned my country into a shithole.
@@glebb..3416 Yeltsin did.
@@zxsium4059 Gorbachev, yelzin and Putin all three did it.
@Jawed Karim........................................................................................................................................................
One should appreciate the fact that his memory is still intact at this age ....
Fascinating to compare with Biden who is clearly ill.
@@maxflight777 Yet he still won against Trump. You had to be very fucked up to lose to a dementia patient.
@@anoon- he forgor💀
@@anoon- Its a media problem, Biden fucked up so many things, especially Afghanistan, but people still place it on Trump even though he planned a slow pullout unlike Biden's, which somewhat resembles the end of Vietnam, and people don't talk about anything Biden does.
What do you mean that people don't talk about what biden does. Thay is literally 90% of what fox news and the youtube right does every day.
I do respect Gorbachev, he allowed Eastern Europe choose its own fate and didn’t interfere. And he genuinely wanted peace and freedom. I hope when he dies he is remembered, in my opinion he is up there with the greatest people in history.
I agreee very much
URSS was born with 2 monsters lenine and staline, URSS dies in the most dignified manner with a true though flawed leader Gorbachev a man with basic human decency above all even at the cost of his own power.
@@francis87589 I love that last point, no one can blame a man for chasing power but at the cost of others it’s the right thing to do to show decency even at the cost of what you chased your whole life.
@@francis87589 There were 2 Heroes too, the one submarine staff that prevented the launching of nukes and the man that brought freedom and pizza hut.
Now the world should face Putler 😥
Death: “Time to go”
Gorbachev: “Was i a good Soviet leader?”
Death: “some would say”
Would've been if yelstin didn't ruin the ussr in the first place
@@kobra6660 The fall of the USSR was inevitable, No matter about Gorbachev, People wanted freedom and they got it
@@cresfirc7349 the problem of the communists is that when they aim at their guns against people
they suffer an impenetrable contraceptive at the mouth of the weapons while the rogue democracies like Britain and United Snakes of America can so easily shoot them down on the ground such an artistic way that the world can not help clapping to appreciate this noble task.
@@babukansabanik6292 Sorry but people hate the United States because of righteous police shootings so I don't see what you are getting at.
SOME ...? I WOULD SAY ... WE ALL SAY HE WAS CERTAIN A GOOD SOVJET LEADER ! THE ONLY ONE ! GOD BLESS HIM...
What an interesting life this guy must have lived. They should make a russian version of The Crown about Gorbachev's life.
100% agree.
The Tovarisch
Imagine how many young women probably expect Merkel to resign.
What a fabulous post. 👍
Interesting life??? How the life of traitor could be interesting? He left us without our Motherland and forced to live in the country I despise so much. America is a real Impire of evil, no doubts. Everything they told us in Soviet Union about america is true! Not USSR had to be destroyed, but definitely the US!
Loved in the West, hated in his country as a traitor. That sums him up in a nutshell.
Nope he was a wise man for not starting a war with the west
Even in victory Churchill was forced to give up the empire; but Gorbachov had a more graceful end of career following the empire’s dissolution.
In Lithuania (politically, west) , we hate him, just like every communist leader. Fucking morons
@@saulgoodman5451 they saved your asses from nazi and you backstabbed them. You former USSR nations on the European side are the worst, with all your NATO boot licking.
@@musamusashi no, Nazis saved from Russians. If ur talking about what they did to us, they sent 200,000 lithuanians ro Siberia, banned our old and beauiful language culture. By your name I am assuminh you are some random Japanese, so it's not for you to know stuff like that
It’s incredible that he’s still alive. Truly a piece of history
He's considered a traitor by a lot of Russians, especially in is own birth place.
Bald And Bankrupt made a good video about this.
@@whiteboijared7630 which video
@@Umar-kj6pd I don't know which one but he went to his birth town and asked people about there thoughts on him. If you do a bit of research you might find which one 👍
Because he is one. Gorbachev, yelzin and Putin are traitors.
Its amazing that the Russians don't recognise that Yeltsin permitted massive corruption and betrayed the Russian people and allowed himself to be surrounded by a mafiosi group of oligarchs whom Putin never confronted even to this day about their ill gotten gains. Gorbachev biggest failing was his naivity in seing the best in people without considering the worst. He may also partially have become less resolute after Raisa became ill and died . Had he stood up to Yelstin it might have turned out differently.
Bring Gorbachev back. Old but sane.
When Mahatir could come in Malaysia in his 90s, why couldn't Gorbachev
Blame Yeltsin not Gorbachev
The fact is Gorbachev was weak and exploited left and right by friends and foes.
Cringe imagine watching Ben Shapiro.
I agree with you, but Gorbachev could have done more
tbh both are to blame, im right-wing btw.
@@mottscottison6943 Please provide credible evidence to prove that your perspective is accurate!
The world wasn't good enough for Gorbachev's greatness.
I agree so much
This guy has 1000 iq
Gorbachev is kind apart man
Host with the most glasnost.
Assholes made a mess and the war got cold
@Joseph MALLOUHI If your name ends with in time to get out.
@@Sneed1999 Did somebody say, bearthmarks?
@@jaydesigns1236 You fool what did you do
@@Sneed1999 starting from the beginnin lol
When he said the beggining of a new cold war, well he isnt wrong!
except now it's a real war of aggression.
It would be interesting to hear his thought on the current situation.
He saw is coming...
R. I. P. Mikhail Gorbachev, 1931-2022
🙏 🪦
RIP Gorbi, you were one kind of a leader.
Can we get a statement from this man while he's still around, on the current situation?
Kristina T ... I have asked the same question, that would be very enlightening I'm sure, and I doubt that he'd be worried about any repercussions!
yesss
Yes, PLEASE!!!!!
@@TheCandiceWang amazing he was removed in the 90s due to health issues and now he will outlive putinka
@@user-nn7mg3bp4u hopefully he will indeed outlive the monster
Even the americans knew that the end cause of the USSR must come frome its inside. They knew they couldn't defeat them. Слава СССР
he is a cia agent. a traitor
And now... its America turn
i hope that some day i can still meet gorbachev and thank him
You and your husband Michael
Thank him for destroying my country?
Why 🤣 😂
@@glebb..3416 yeah look at his username
@@glebb..3416 for freeing many people from their misery.
I love that man. He was the pivotal, essential figure of my youth. I was born in 1971. Prior to his appearance, all that Washington and Moscow were doing ( thank you, Ronald Reagan ) was ramping up the threat of nuclear war. He literally saved our lives.
Regardless of whether you love or hate the consequences of his actions, everyone should agree he's a great man who tried his best to do what's right.
no
no
Everything he has done only for himself, his family is the only the beneficiaries of his actions
@@MsLS8 well he helped allot of people by destroying the terrorist regime.
Nah he is miserable and petty and short sighted. I mean he is good only compared to Kamala Harris as it is simply impossible to be worse than that nothingness.
Can’t believe he is still alive
Thank you for tearing down the Berlin wall, I was young but I remember it.
You know why God doesn't take Gorbachev away? Because he's afraid heaven may collapse.
Lmao
Hilarious!
I respect Gorbachev for his refusal to crackdown on the former Soviet states which declared their independence.
RIP Gorbachev
Gorbachev was the only soviet leader that wasn’t a dictator
I mean you could include both Lenin and Khrushchev
sbeve XLR8 I guess
@@sbevexlr848
Lenin??
Lol, he was a fucking maniac. I think if he remained in power, it wouldn't have been much better for soviet citizens than it was under Stalin
@@sergey3482 Lenin is 💯 better than Stalin if he remained then he make more stable Union than Stalin gulag union.
No, he was a traitor.
I think Gorbi thanked Yeltsin for rescuing during that coup, he is not alone
What do you mean His name is Gorbachev, no ugly nickname for HIM please
You're just a joy-killer
@@mafiosomemer3730 You are a pain in the neck. Have some respect for people's names. Most nicknames are ugly.
*Loads a Makarov*
@@mafiosomemer3730 Yes macaroni
I remember the progression of the cold war in my home of Beerwah Australia. I had a few penpals in Russia in1985 great people and wonderful families. We wrote for nearly 10 years and then drifted apart. People thought I was crazy and nicknamed me the mad Russian. I took it as a compliment. I war even taken to a mental hospital for a couple of weeks but got out and went to college and years later worked in mental health support groups.
What age were u in one-thousand-nine-hundred-eight-five?
25
@@suewatson9153 Why that's two point five decades of age. That now makes u a whopping six point two decades of age.
This old bloke was responsible 4 pizza hut commercial back in the day, but he is still all over in history books.
The collapse of communism happened thanks to the Polish resistance with Solidarnosc and the Pope Jan Pawel II. Gorbachev was only a spectator pretending doing something.
@@mikemancuso2526 lmao
Dude, nothing wrong in being in a pizza hut commercial. They provide me my pizza's man.
As a treator
The independent states in friendship - ingenious.
People saying that he's a traitor seem not to realize that the Soviet Union's collapse was inevitable regardless if Gorbachev or whoever were in charge.
Bullshit lmao
@@Dan-Martin And why is it bullshit?
USSR came into existence because of the poor living standard in Tsarist regime and ironically collapsed due to the exact same reason, plus being isolated from the Western world (you know - the Iron Curtain). Oil prices, ruble exchange, low productivity etc.
You see, the problem with planned economies is that eventually they all run out of money. And no empire can survive without economy (which is one of the main reasons for the fall of most empires).
Not to mention the war in Afghanistan, former republic's desire for independence, and people's need for improved life and more freedom.
So, yeah, the USSR was doomed to collapse way before Gorbachev got into power.
@@jekich4433 Ah yes the peoples will for independence, that’s why during the soviet referendum (google it) the majority of people wanted to remain in the Union? The union was dismantled because of opportunistic bureaucrats, who are now oligarchs in their respective republics. No soviet republic is doing well now, it’s a joke. Your buzzwords are laughable. “Freedom” don’t mean jack shit when you’re starving and don’t have a home. Millions of people homeless and starved because of your cute buzzwords, and you still parrot the same words that’s meant to keep them enslaved in the system. Central planning is more efficient in the way that it guarantees that everyone has a job and home. We don’t need 50 flavours of coke and Pepsi, it’s such a massive waste of resources. You don’t understand.
@@Dan-Martin If you're gonna cite the 1991 referendum then how about you be honest about it instead of using it as an argument that the peoples of the USSR didn't want independence? A 2 minute research on google would have debunked what you just spewed.
1) The referendum was not about independence from the Union, but rather supporting the renewal of the USSR brought by Gorbachev's political reforms. It was meant as a legitimizing act for Gorbachev's actions.
2) The Baltic States, Moldova, Georgia and Armenia boycotted the referendum.
3) By the end of the year 99.5% of Georgians, 99.5% of Armenians, 92.3% of Ukrainians (the same ones that according to you voted to remain in the Union a few months earlier) , 74.9% of Latvians, 93.2% of Lithuanians and 98.3% of Uzbeks (the same as with the Ukrainians) voted for independence through a referendum.
>Muh central planning
The biggest factor for the fall of the USSR was the econonic crisis brought by the inefficiency of central planning which brought food shortages throughout the Union. Gorbachev failed to reform because the bureaucrats refused to accept the reforms because they would take away their privileged position.
>buzzwords
Says the guy that spews "referendum", "central planning" and "starving" without doing the most basic research on the stuff he says. Get a job.
@@Chaika1974 The referendum was about preserving the Union in which party officials in the republics refused to accept. One key feature you forgot to mention in your nonsensical blabbering, is that from all the votes cast, 77.85% said yes to preserving the union. All central Asian countries wanted to preserve the union, including Azerbaijan and Armenia. Ukraine votes and Belarus voted yes also.
Central planning failed because of Gorbachev's privatization of the economy, not because of central planning. Funny how suddenly their was a food shortage in the 80's? why was their no food shortages in the 60's and 70's? It's also funny your name is in Georgian and you have a picture of Gagarin as your profile pic. One of the biggest success in soviet science and engineering was the space program. If you're going to be so anti soviet at least get it together. Gagarin's successes was also Georgia's success, what the fuck has Georgia done now?
I have a great job and a home, meanwhile you're trying to cling on to the past because Georgia doesn't have a future. You can't be as meaty as me when you have no money kiddo. Get it together.
Gorbachev was ok . maybe world should take notes n remember history
If the USSR was not out of money and broke, he would still be in power. He is no hero, he is a hard line Communist to the core. He had no choice but to quit the USSR. They had no way to pay their corrupt little comrades.
When Gorbachev ascended to power in Soviet Union in the mid 1980's, the country had already grown more unsettling, compounded by its failure in Afghanistan. Had he been firmer and obstinate, Soviet could not have disintegrated that fast. Instead, he chose openness and reform. The rest is history..
He still lives and I'm happy to see that but it's also very tragic when you think about how the world has forgotten him. He's been forsaken by most of his countrymen who have been misled by the current regime. It must be tough for him to see his predecessors undo all that he and his team had worked for. I really hope that there would be a Russian leader in the near future who could carry his legacy.
He made his country so great that he doesn't live there and moved to Germany
To be honest, this man is not only a historical figure, but also a providential one, having met a world-wide Korean religious leader, took the moral responsibility of saving Russia and it's people by dessolving the atheistic marxist ideology that had choked Russia for over 70 years. He saved Russia and other countries enslaved by the Soviet Union, proving to the world that marxism was a failure. Mr. Gorbachev is one of the greatest political leaders in world and providential histories. I was there at that meeting. That was the turning point in Russia history.
Gorbachev was the biggest rock star in the 80s....at least to his people, and we in the west respected him a great deal. Still do. Wish the world had more of these types of men...men who are willing to do the hard work, and save us from ourselves.
He is a good human being , but possibly , a misfit in bureaucracy !
He’s a two faced figure.
He did allowed more freedom in USSR but on the other hand he did kill allot of innocent people like in Vilnius 1991 January or in Baku.
@@5Penkets.. Oh ! did'nt have info on that !
@@5Penkets Putin has killed people and has no regrets, Gorbachev was involved with killing and realized that was a better way of doing things. And the question is , did Gorbachev have complete control, or did he have to roll with the flow. Putin has a problem people are scared of him.
It's fascinating that he's still alive. Long live Mikhail Gorbachev!
that didnt age well my dude :/
Gorbachev looks just like a chill but sometimes cold, hard working person..
No matter what anyone says, his legacy in history is, without a doubt, assured. He is one of a kind.
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I agree, he could have continued in the same way as former Soviet leaders, instead he tried to reform the moribund system he inherited. The world would now have been a much better place had he continued for longer in office. He was surely up among the greatest leaders of the 20th century. I wish him well.
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Seems that the public have had a polarizing opinion of him, ranging from him being a hero or being a traitor. There are definitely many things that have happened before, during and after his term. I don't know much about USSR but here's what I know.
- The Soviet-Afghan war started since 1979 when he took office in 1985. The war seemed unwinnable by that point.
- The economy had been stagnating since the 70s due to fixed pricing
- Protests in the Eastern Bloc had been suppressed
- USSR focused more on the Science than the Arts (apparently)
- There was a referendum which people actually wanted to stay in the USSR but was never implemented
- After the USSR collapsed, it lost huge amounts of territory, forming new countries
- Rebel groups and the Mafia had become prevalent.
- The economy became worst than before and took many years to recover
- The military had weakened to the point that they even lost to the Chechens
Am I accurate with this? What other things that I might've missed?
Pontosan! A sok zöldfülü okos nem emliti Csernenkot, Androidot, Miko Janit, nameg a névtelen puccsistàkat. Mind Gorbacsov, mind Yelcin pontosan jo volt és idöszerü az akkori krizisben, amit nem ök hanem még elödjeik csinàltak /akarva vagy sem/. Kina nem roskadt magàba Mao halàlakor-Pedig az nagyobb zuhany volt.
it,s a hero for the west and trator for the soviet union, but for me he still not a traitor, because he just want to give people more freedom and save soviet union economy, even if he fail, he still trying to do the good thing
@@atlas2-1 true true
He just really wanted pizza hut in USSR
@@woodrowwilson9992 lol yeah
Can we all agree that. It doesnt matter if you hate the guy or not. Its your own opinion. Dont try to cause conflict and force other people to follow your beliefs.
When you pay for his treason by having everything taken from you and living a destroyed life without prospects for decades so he'd play dumb from London apartments he couldn't possibly afford on his salary - you'll have a say in it.
Hello Gorby...much respect from California!
Thank you ❤ dear Mikhail Sergeevich and yours 🌞
#Anne #Dahl i love Gorbachev too
Wow... Mikhail Gorbachev and Jimmy Carter are some of the last ties we have to the Cold War era...
Yes. But now we have Putin and Jinping leading the second cold war now.
We get to watch Cold War 2.0 with us vs China live on TV and TH-cam.
He was a great statesman. A man with a real vision and he did much to fix a horrible system and make the world safer. So we wish him a very long life. Look what Yeltsin gave us ? Putin...
Wasn't his fault really. It is said that putin and company did bombing attack on his potential enemies trying race for presidency, way before yeltsin resigned
Mikhail Gorbachev named Man of the year twice in Time magazine 1987 and 1989.and awarded Nobel peace prize in Dec 10,1990, and the Soviet Union Collapsed. During the 1990s, once Boris Yeltsin became President of Russia in July 1991, the oligarchs emerged as well-connected entrepreneurs who started from nearly nothing and became rich through participation in the market via connections to the corrupt,
Gorbachev was pretty good in the opening scene of "The Naked Gun" movie!
Congratulations, Mr. Gorbachev! I thank you for the freedom I have now!
A historic mistake proved by subsequent events where what was said was forgotten years later. He was not there to verify anymore.
i feel like people are missing a crucial point. Post gorbachev-russia was a disaster. Massive unrest, rampant inflation, failing society and oligarchy. But you have to understand, that gorbachev was tasked with something near-impossible to accomplith. The eastern bloc was falling apart. Baltics, Poland, Caucasus and central europe were all fighting for reforms or independence. The economy of the USSR was on its way to stagnating, ever since khrushchev resigned. He was put in an uncomfortable place, to save a dumpster fire. We should be praising him for dissolving the soviet union peacefully, without a nuclear armaggeddon with the west, or without a major civil war following the dissolution. This man did his best to protect the already-falling superpower. And so he went for the more radical reforms which ultimately failed. This left russia economically weak, and that is the only thing he should be condemned for. Why dont you call Stalin a "traitor"? His gigantic cult of personality and totalitarian rule are a perversion to the socialist thought.
It's interesting how people who have lived under propaganda (Stalin), have a difficult time accepting the truth when it is unveiled for them. (Mass Formation Psychosis).
The thoughts of communism are inspired by Satan who inspired Marx. Dictatorship is the end product of communism. When Putin imprisoned his enemies or murders them he is doing the work of the Devil. When the nonpraticing communist jew sent Lenin into Russia they were doing the work of Satan. When communism persecuted the Russian Orthodox church, they were doing the work of Satan. When Putin is so demonic against the West he is a victim of his own paranoia and a tool of Satan. God could work with Gorbachev not Putin. God cannot work with Biden, or Obama, or maybe Clinton, George Bush Jr was controlled by Deep State types who are committed to Satan, and the New world Order.
Wow! He's become Ed Asner.
This was in my recommended feed like an hour after my soviet ushanka arrived
Gorbachev and Regan, the 2 extraordinary men who changed the world.
Happy birthday, comrade
A good and understanding leader....He did great things for both sides
He killed many people.
Gorbachev we miss you 😢
"Decades after losing power, he has continued to make his voice heard." hmmm... he has?
No.
He was a great man. The world was lucky to have him.
Thankyou President Gorbachev for your great era to bring peace for the world as we breath today. A warm greetings from Jakarta Indonesia
I want to meet him so much.
Haha me too! ^O^
My respect to him. I would like shake his hand
@@aguywholikesmilitary5394 Why? He destroy my motherland!
@@user-yv5fr6qh9x He liberated Russia and other countries by giving the people the rights they deserve
@@aguywholikesmilitary5394 Вместо науки, образования, медицины?
The success of Stalin - the man who used to boast that he conquered the United States "from the plow to the atomic bomb in just a generation" - compared to Gorbachev's failure shows that a socialist economy is unable to function with a minimum of efficiency without requiring a massive dose of political violence. In an attempt to reform a decadent regime, Gorbachev moved faster with the process of economic opening in the hope of removing the predictable resistance that the Soviet bureaucracy would create to economic reform measures, as thorough proof with the failed attempt. coup d'état in August 1991 - which ended up precipitating the final crisis of socialism and the dissolution of the USSR itself
Its Chinese parallel - Deng Xiaoping - adopted a logic diametrically opposed to that of Gorbachev: it prioritized the achievement of economic prosperity (adopting in practice capitalism) precisely to delay any attempt at political opening, as was evident with the acceleration of the economy. reforms after the Tiananmen Square massacre.
It is important to note that it was Karl Marx himself who, in his Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, discerned the scenario in which the conditions for a social revolution process are formed, describing it as follows:
“At a certain stage in its development, the material productive forces of society contradict existing production relations or - which is only their legal expression - with the property relations in which they have been active until then. From the forms of development of the productive forces, these relations are transformed into fetters of them. So, it is a time of social revolution. '*
By rejecting the pursuit of profit maximization as an instrument to stimulate innovation, socialist countries ended up condemning themselves to obsolescence. Thus, they lost the chance to incorporate the productivity gains made possible by technological progress. That is why the capitalist countries managed to provide a greater rise in the standard of living of their population, even without pursuing the egalitarian ideal. Therefore, until the “final crisis of socialism” (to paraphrase K. Marx's own definitions once again), it was only a matter of time. But religious fanatics do not give up on their faith, even against the indisputable proof of the facts, which completely refute it!
* Reproduced according to MARX, K. Preface to the Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, organized by Florestan Fernandes and published under the title K. Marx: Theory and historical process of the social revolution, In Marx & Engels, Great Social Scientists Collection, History, vol. 36. São Paulo: Ática, 1983. p. 232. Commemorative edition of the centenary of Karl Marx's death.
Sonny, u write too much in the tabloids.
Man, Gorbachev was not fucking around. The man has very, very fucking strongly set morals and ideals, and he's a wall made of titanium: aint gonna give in an inch.
If anything else, he should be admired for believeing, and standing by, what he believes to be right.
Rest in peace Gorbachev
he is a huge leader. and it's his brave act that things got over in ppls favor back around 1990. that the u.s. would claim a moral victory, spending ever more on military while the ussr was gone to gain as much power as possible and interfere and expanding with nato was not his fault as it's felt by many russians. it's the fault and the responsibility of the u.s. elites.
now with some different characters than Gorbachev in the kremlin rich families' interest to expand their powers in the east of europe like kolomoisky, biden etc. are a dangerous mixture of delusional old egomaniacs on all sides.
the ppl of ukraine for now find themselves caught in power structures where they obey some rich folks to kill each other. they literally share the same blood, so many of them...
we don't have to just overthrow the elites we have to overthrow the system leading to such chain reactions.
war is over if we all want it -
the rich are not only stealing our money by tax evasion and therefore our future, even our present day they steal by pushing us in a war. Ca. 70% of the population does not take any active part in politics. this majority is forced to live in a battle field now because of a handful rich old men...
we can do something. look up works of noam chomsky or rutger bregman
peace
I would like to hear what he has to say about the war in Ukraine.
Michael Gorbachev was USSR leader in 1990.I still rember I was in my junior high school
Did I just notice correctly that at 0:38 till 0:42, he is making a cross?
I recall a journalist or politician who said something incredible in the eighties
The Soviet Union is about to collapse
I had lived under the terror of a nuclear war and that prediction out of the blue came as a surprise
We knew Little or nothing of what was going on behind the iron courtain
Shortly the Berlin Wall came down along with the empire of the soviets
He is a hero
Yes
Hi Gorbi.
His name is Mikhael Gorbachev please !
Chav
انت لم تغير التاريخ، فقط قم بتغير ذالك إليك، فهذا هو الصواب...
fun fact: gorbachev was the only premier that was actually born in the soviet union
you mean russia
That’s probably the reason why he destroyed it
Dont blame Gorbachev for the demise of the Soviet Union. U.S.S.R. economy is in bad shape under Kruschev - Breschnev -Chernenko.How many decades of mismanagement of Soviet economy.
He should have done what china did, gradual reform (how about we ignore the recent activities of china in this comparison)
they didn't have the cheap labor that China does
That is what Gorbachev tried to do but was pushed aside by an impatient, less intelligent, less visionary and significantly corrupt Yeltsin.
He tried, the Soviet Union in the last few years was like Communist China is today, except with less censorship, as Gorbachev also tried a free press alongside his economic reforms. This is ultimately what made the reforms fail because it allowed Communist corruption to come to the fore. It also allowed managers of state enterprises to envision a new political system free from the limitations of Socialism. If a free press were ever allowed in Communist China, the Deng-era economic reforms would no longer be sufficient to appease the population and the country would likely collapse like the Soviet Union.
china did 1989 Tiananmen Square. Gorbi did not want this approach to it's allies not to mention his own people
He looks remarkably like Uncle Sylvester in the Adam's Family!
He's missing a light bulb
.... He looks remarkably like Uncle Sylvester in the Adam's Family ....
But is less relevant.
the enormous bravery of Mikhail Gorbachev, who released many countries from Soviet captivity, will never be lost on me. I have always had the greatest respect for the man and if i was Russian I would be so proud of him. He is the polar opposite of V Putin.
if you were Russian, you could very well die from hunger, or the war in Chechnya, or from crime in the 90s😉 and you would still work without a salary
I'm with you. 100% correct. I' think Gorbachev is/was only clear minded leader in that countrys history. He had great plans and ideas to rebuild Soviet Union with new borders and with new goverment, but the old hard line communists(Brezhnev's old buddies) didn't see that vision and they wanted him out, but even then, the old bastards couldn't do anything to Yeltsin, who then messed up everything.
Thatcher liked him !
Of course.
But what about Russian ppl ???
No world leader can dance like Yeltsin ✌️
So many people in the comment sections who have no idea what kind of crimes he committed
What then
Guys he doesnt know
Search for 20th January massacre
Thanks for this, USA!
I appreciate the update on this particular world figure! 👌🌟😊
@@mgdoff3389 thats what us propaganda did to him
He does seem to be aware that he will never ever die. Ivan,Peter, Catherine, Alanxender, Lenin, Stalin, Gorbachev...... that's Russia for you.
Yes but thir name starts wit GREAT, but gorby's with TRAITOR.
German doctors - descendants of nazis are keeping this bastard alive for uniting germany and destroying USSR - the country that won the war ! THE ONLY COUNTRY THAT WON THE SECOND WORLD WAR! All the others were just helping!
Mr. Corbachev is the Golden man and Golden leader!
when you give people freedom, and your entire country falls apart because they actually have he opportunity to do something about the broken system
Look up actual policies of Gorbachev outside of glasnost/perestroika. He didn't want to give people freedom, he wanted the west to cut some slack and allow the USSR to continue past the social unrest.
Oh, shut up! Wars started in the country and people had to flee because of that! I had to become refugee and will never forgive gorbachev for that!
@@lttrhd So... he should have left things as they were?
The dissolution of the USSR was one of the worst things to ever happen. Millions were put into poverty and homelesness. Go ask anyone from Russia who lived through that age.
Ok, Noob
Ok, noob.
@@ironcheater1012 why is he a noob thats a fact
@@stadtrepublikmulhausen4121 Name
It is both a good thing and a bad thing. The USSR was a failed corrupt system that only stayed around because of an iron grip and suppression of freedoms. Its inevitable collapse came and did make people's lives worse for a significant time but acting like the USSR isn't guilty for this is disingenuous.
Yes indeed! Humanity needs compassion & cooperation, world leaders must lead on road to peace & prosperity for all humanity. Diplomacy, dialogue, open hearted understanding of diversity, differences in culture, language & background can find common ground if only humanity opens up in a spirit of forgiveness, acceptance & positivity. Humanity must unite in fighting the pandemic but more importantly, human politics must get healthy too, gain maturity & shed off old ways & bad habits! Praying for humanity's deliverance as God's love & wisdom prevails. May God bless Gorbachev & all world leaders, govt officials, civic & public servants. God bless! 😇
Did this man's failure not learn you anything?
Can we have a translation of the song he sang?
It goes: I seek freedom and peace.
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Thanks for the information .
The dude has been alive for longer than anyone in power.. why cant they atleast listen to the man.
He's a good man there should be more leaders like him
He was good for Us and West Europeans, not Soviets. Too gullible and the West took advantage and of this farm boy :(.
You mean a lot of traitors to their mother country
@@iraqi3612 thoughts like that is why Russia is in the state its in run by a tyrant and rampit alcoholism
Mikhail Sergeyevich, you could've been the longest General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, longer than Stalin and a much better leader. The world misses you.
Good man
i didnt even know he was still alive
I don't think Gorbachev gets enough credit for keeping Eastern Europe tur4 into a giant civil war
and Putin just decided to shit all over it
He was a great and original leader
God bless him
Sell his country in an original way?
Oh....title should be "MAN WHO CLOSED 70.000 FACTORIES"....
For me Gorbachev was the best president that ever existed on this planet. I'm Brazilian and saw the history of this guy. It's a shame he had to be in charge of a country that was already suffering the consequences of mistakes made by previous regimes.