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- Ex-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev says the dissolution of the USSR in 1991 was "a crime and a coup". In a rare interview marking 25 years since the demise of the Soviet Union, he told the BBC's Steve Rosenberg he resigned to avoid a bloody civil war. But today the West was "provoking Russia" and trying to undermine President Vladimir Putin, he said.
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Nah man, He purposefully ended USSR at 1991 so it lasted exactly 69 years
Edit : 6.9k likes, nice
Andros The Conqueror what a legend
Hes name is conquerer ofcourse hes a legend
Andros The Conqueror nice
Not enough tho bc i really wanted the USSR to last until my teen era....
Nice
I didn't even know the guy was still alive... huh.
Dave Lastname he was the best USSR politician bar none.
The guy?🤔
@@richardturner6063 Nein! Watch again what he said about Putin.
Dave Lastname shame on you, kim ty jestes ty ? to wszystko co ty masz do powiedzenia baraniu ????
I actually have a new found respect for the guy now. He saw the chaos in the horizon and steered away from it.
That's the fundamental difference between him and Putin. Putin won't blink even if the consequences are horrific
Only 12 hrs ago I was reading about the Cold War and Gorbachev on Wikipedia and watched this interview, and now I am reading he is no more
Rest In Peace Gorbachev sir.
Did you read about gulag and Soviet oppression of people and freedom they came with/religion these Soviet leaders could have stoped the arms race /communist jihad and find a better capitalism socialism /freedom/peaceful solution but instead millions died and they want to keep it going (if ussr didn't die and succeeded in turning the planet Soviet communist oppressive maybe now you will be enlightened by experience.and your opinion will change )
@@ChocoMogu15you mean learn propaganda. if you were in one of those you would also be a normal prisoner 😆😂😂🎂🍰
@@ChocoMogu15 if you were in a gurag you will become elcomunista LGBT then . Seriously why are you pretending to be dump or are you really dump were do you get your history/ news from are you a zombie child or a dirty communist bot 😒🥴😂😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆 may Stalin be with you and your kind and may his will dominate yours . You got your communist Christmas ⛄🎄 gift right
@@ultimateanthony1883you got fed propaganda
@@belkYT Did you grow up in Soviet union did your father ever visit a gulag for holidays (during the Soviet union) or are you the blind leading long sighted individuals 😆😆😆😆😆 who feed you the shit you are on .
This man literally just told us we’re trying to get rid of Putin in the wrong way
actually yes.
How about removing Mr. Pu....while he is sleeping, when he wakes up, he is in another place. When politicians are unfit, you have to remove. Politicians should be hired AT WILL condition to be fired with or no reason. Not 20years term. This is the most stupid thing you can do giving long term. Somebody already gave him a nickname: "Putler". Again, if you hire politicians AT WILL term, any country would not have any problem with corruption, Hitler attitude, etc. Just fire..
Putin ain't gonna be removed anymore, the west's treachery has backfired spectacularly and it's effects aren't even over yet.
The guy that opened a Pizza Hut in the Soviet Union is still alive.
i would buy pizza from that place, and i woul comp[lain that why is russia pizza so greasy?
I like Gorbachev for his reforms, but Yeltsin screwed it all
And the guy that killed it
And mcdonalds I can remember the first time we was told McDonalds had opened in moscow the ultimate sign of western imperalism the uk is getting a Disney park soon
Ok
Seeing Gorbachev on TV regularly as a kid during the 80's, I came to my own conclusion that the scar on his head was actually a map of the USSR which he had tatooed on.
Lmao
Really?
@@sakshamdeo925 no, it's a skin condition called "port-wine stain/nevus flammeus" caused by capillary malformation
@@Admin-Kuni-6172 thanks bro
@@sakshamdeo925 no problem
Rip Gorbachev you will be missed. I wanted to meet him in person and talk about the Cold War and etc. Now my goal is to find his tombstone and pay my respects
You mean pay your peee😳😨🔥
The All Soviet People wouldn't miss him, thanks to his deeds. So F u c k him !
Not RIP Gorbachev. May he turn over in his grave for collapsing such a superpower. I will not miss him. His policies made my family -family of technical intelligentsia so poor, that we had to immigrate to the West.
@@ildart8738 so like gorbachev caused murders of kartvelians and you say the ussr was good
there was alot of the same stuff with other ussr members too
@@ildart8738 kid
When this man . Living in a time of espionage and sedition walks away from a fight . . To promote peace . Amongst his own people . . This is the true mark of an honest man . ☮️
He had no choice! The satellite countries were about to take up arms against anyone associated with Russia and its communist system. Lech Walesa started the breakup and Romania's brute Ceausescu ignited the revolt! the massive level of corruption within the Soviet system didn't help either!!! Read about what he did to Romanian's and what they ultimately did to him!! Something that should've been done to Phillipino President Marcos.
Many Russians call him 'too soft', 'traitor etc too.
You see this is the price of being 'decent' in todays world. You will be called too soft and not actually remembered for the incredible humanity in your heart. On the other hand, being aggressive will lead you to being called other names as well. Us humans will judge anything. Thats how it is in here. The sooner the young ones learn that, they can live on this planet a bit more easily and be able to breath easy. Just live it!, fck what they call you. (hopefully ull live as a good man, ignore the terminologies, praise or abusive judgement)
@@yba666_ thanks 👍
Voluntarily giving up power was new in Russian history and a wise thing to do.
He wasn't honest. The man destroyed his own country while presiding over it. What is honest in that? And what has he said about the millions he has in bank accounts in the West with all his relatives living in Germany instead of his own country?
"shook hands with both ronalds,
reagan and mcdonalds"
Lol
No doubt
If your name his "in", time to get out
@Joseph Mallouhi Torn Down That Wall Like The Kool Aid Man OH YEAH
@@RIPStudioOfficial you both need a yoga.
You need a shower.
And you all need to learn how to handle real power
Did someone say real power?
You interviewed Gorbachev just for a two minute clip?
There must be more.. you should have linked it in the description
Doesn't align with the narrative of BBC. They won't show it.
@@desishikari4543 ^
^
How exactly does it not align with their narrative?
@@fiveyearflan what he meant is that if what he said wasn't aligned to what BBC wants to hear, they won't show it. Just my guess
This man has always given me the impression of being a wise and compassionate person. His handling of US-USSR relations helped to temporarily ease tensions. He made concessions, not just for the good of the Soviet Union, but for the world. It’s very unfortunate that it is a naive thing to do in this world. Many people see his concessions as catastrophic for Russia and former Soviet states, so now we live in a world where nuclear powers are unwilling to sit at the table with anything other than the demands they have stood firm on for decades.
OMG LOL. Total Kremlin Koominist
They were catastrophic for Russia because of the way the West handled it. Promises made and given at that time, totally and completely disregarded today. Look at a map of Eastern Europe and see all the former Soviet bloc states they withdrew from, now have US troops, us tanks, missiles on them. NATO. "Not an inch Eastward" we promised, but we reneged on it. Instead of truly treating Russia as a partner like we did with Germany and Japan, we kept an adversarial stance. And now we are paying for it. Although lots got rich along the way didn't they??? And isn't that what is really important?
@@dashcan8479 no, just someone thoughtful with some critical thinking ability. Something we no longer have in the US.
Go to the front of the class.
@@MrCheetah440
Maybe there's hope for us yet if people like you remind us of American misdeeds.
The ABM treaty was abandoned.
Missile launchers that could shoot Tomahawk missiles are now dotted all over East Europe,
NATO has been used to attack Libya, Syria and Serbia.
And you want to know why Putin had said "Not on my watch"
Remember George W saying when asked why he attacked Iraq actually said "They tried to kill my daddy, and they have weapons of mass destruction", which they didn't.
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
You guys really know how to pick your leaders. Bush, Biden!!
Holy sh*t this man is charismatic.
Every line that he says feels like a well prepared dialogue from some movie.
That "soon it will be 120 percent", feels like a threat from a bond villain.
"Soon it will be 120%... he knows everything" Gorbachev still has a sharp wit.
beatonthedonis47 Yes. He’s intelligent and basically a decent guy.
He's not dumb. I doubt Putin likes him because he has talked before of how he thought the decision to dissolve the ussr was a mistake.
But Putin is in complete control. If Gorbachev wants a decent life and a decent legacy he will give all his authority to putin
@@ericheine2414 yeah he's referencing western corruption
@@nightprowler6336 Look at how much America's current situation parallels the USSR just before it collapsed. Google "fall of the USSR explained in 5 minutes" it sounds a lot like what's going on in in America.
Night Prowler You're not very bright
"the USSR was destroyed by treachery," he said, just after finishing filming a pizza hut advert
He gave up the USSR for a pizza
Alberto Fuijimori Yea, since Science victory went to the US.
Actually nobody ever won a domination victory. The US won a cultural victory, the EU is trying to win the diplo victory and Elon's trying the space victory on his own.
@@vladimirlenin9120 he make russia stronger
One Arch-traitor commit it for 30 silver coins. Another for piece of pizza.
imagine how many million people died after this desicion..
When Gorbachov was leader of the USSR, he made it harder to get vodka because the people were drinking too much. One day a man goes to buy vodka in Moscow, but there is a long line of people waiting. He gets so angry, he says ‘This is BS, I’m going to go kill Gorbachov!’. A while later he comes back to the booze store and gets back in line looking dejected. The people there then ask him, ‘so what happened? Did you kill Gorbachov?’. No says the man, the line to kill Gorbachov is MUCH longer than this line to buy vodka.
ITS THE HOST WITH THE MOST GLASNOST
Mr Chopstick92 if your name end with in time to get out
fuck yeah
I had the balls to let Baryshnikov dance playa
Turn down that wall like the cool aid man
Oooo yeaa
You two need yoga, you need a shower
siobhanieo72 And you all need to learn how to handle real power
"Soon it will be 120 percent." Very cynical comrade, but very, very true.
Art Anson You are wrong.
@Art Anson Did you seriously just use a figure of speech, "120%", to pull a "hurhur commies don't understand economics hurhur"?
@Art Anson Been told to give "110%" and "120%" are also figures of speech. The fact you used this as an opportunity to bash communists intellect is probably the greatest reach for an argument I've ever seen. I'm surprised you didn't pull a muscle.
The fact you think Blair and Brown A) bankrupted the treasury or B) had anything to do with the left and its values, demonstrates that you're not in a position to start talking down to people about economics or politics.
I'm also not sure why I'd get on a boat to either of those places. I don't believe in Juche ideology, and I'm not certain which part of an economy with vast swathes of private industry represents "Communism".
@@PsilentMusicUK please stop. You can't reason to people who lost them.
120% does he mean 100% plus 20% foreigners or does Russia is using some different sort of Maths than the rest of the world?
A Russian in an interview in 1992 said "What am I supposed to do with this freedom when we are still economicly broken?"
Better than no freedom lmfao…
@@Boomhauersdad you would'nt say that if you had nothing to eat during the 90's in post soviet countries
I'm an American. I feel like I grew up with Mr. Gorbachev. I think he was a compassionate man. I also think he was an extraordinary leader, like President Reagan.
Reagan was not an extraordinary leader. He was merely a puppet for Wall Street goons. He sold Americans an epic lie and made it seem like it was the best thing that ever happened. It's time to grow up and see these monsters for what they really are.
@@LambentOrt I've grown up since the Reagan years. Made a lot of money the last 3 decades through a lot of honest hard work. Zero complaints about the American Dream. How about you, Bud? How did it go wrong for you? How did Wall Street victimize you?
@@zoso73 - Yup, the American dream. A country where a few can become so wealthy that they can run their own space programms and at the same time thousands live hopeless lives sleeping on the streets.
@@fredgillespie5855 life will never be perfect. Still the #1 country immigrants want to immigrate to, and there is no close second.
@@zoso73 The American Dream is really good for immigrants because they know how harsh life can be and bust their asses working for a good future. For natural born Americans its different. They feel they're entitled to everything without doing shit
He didnt killed the soviet union
*Graphite* : but i did
USSR: nothing can stop me, nothing in the entire world
Chernobyl reactor 4: I’m gonna end this mans whole careers
You're delusional, there's no graphite
RBMK reactors don't explode
Press the az 5
Pls comrade Dyatlov tell me how a reactor core explode
kind of ironic, the anthem starts with the words "the union is unbreakable"
Soyuzzz nerushimiiii
Unshakeable, unmovable, not unbreakable
Look at how many people are still United in support for communism. Just because the physical union is dissolved, doesnt mean the metaphorical one is.
And how would you know how many 'people' are in support of communism?
@@kristinaorlovska4154 the evidence is everywhere you look. First off there's all the Communist nostalgia felt by the Eastern bloc, particularly in Russia,Georgia and East Germany. Second theres the sheer amount of western people who support communism, who can be seen organising themselves into unions such as the SSP or even little things like the existence of r/ChapoTrapHouse
Never knew Gorbachev's nickname is Treachery.
always was
I remember a classmate was doing a presentation of the USSR to our world history class in middle school and one kid asked "Why does the president have a tattoo of Thailand on his forehead?" And now for the life of me cannot unthink that.
Ditto! Here we call it "The map of Norway"
It's great, once you hear it, it cannot be unheard xD
USSR: Mr. Gorbachev, I don't feel so good
*fades away*
Gorbachev: It had to be done
Help me nope more like:
USA: Gorbachev hey,can u destroy the USSR for us plz.
Gorbachev: Nope
USA: Here’s 3 million bucks
Gorbachev: Ok
USSR: I don’t feel so good
best one yet
Ussr : I am inevitable
Gorbachev : I am Gorbachev
Ivan Karaschuk economy does not equal political stability. In an ideal communist society there is to be no economy, wealth is to be shared. So the ‘economy’ argument doesn’t work this time xd
A civil war involving nuclear weapon is indeed frightening.
Mw2 *intensifies*
Turds in America keep clamoring for another civil war. Everytime they bring it up I remind them it'd include nukes and they look at me like I'm crazy
@@BadBoyBobby85 Another US civil war will never happen. The Republican party is full of boomers and all of them will die in the next 10-15 years.
@@Boooooooooo541 Libtard
@@Boooooooooo541 I'm not american, but if I ever went there I'd vote republican and I'm young.
I think I have grasped his philosophy after watching many of his interviews recently. This guy is a consistent pacifist and mediator. He knows very well that a conflict cannot exist without hostile interaction between the two opposite sides. The ending of the Cold War was a direct implementation of this philosophy in the USSR's foreign relations. Rejection to hostile interaction also means he had to voluntarily step down from power in 1991 to prevent a conflict from further escalating. And this is also why he never blamed the current crisis and dilemma on Russia or Putin. He knew that the responsibility for the current conflict lies in both sides' interactions. In some sense, Russia was provoked but it would also be mistaken to forget that Russia had also provoked the West. The same thing could be also said about the rise of Russian authoritarianism since the 2010s, it was also kinda formed in interactions between Putin's administration and Russia's liberal movements. Hence he always emphasized that Putin only acted in response. People often say he avoided criticising Putin directly so that he could still live in peace in Russia. I don't think that's the case, he really doesn't blame Putin. A real pacifist should have a capacity to sympathise with any side.
A very wise point you have there. I'll try to take this advise as far as my life will let me.
The USSR provoked the west? How? By just existing?
I like Gorbachev. He has a good soul, and cares about the welfare of others. I wish he was still in charge today.
An empire toppled by it's enemies can rise again.
But an empire that crumbles from within is dead
No, it will return one day
yeah sanctions/embargos and all is really "inside"
Xaxxaxxaxaxaxaax keep thinking that comrade, third rome will rise again.
As if USSR was an empire.
@@kazuhiramiller7491 by empire they mean a large influential state not the monarchical title.
"Soon it will be 120%" that was subtle, but a pretty awesome statement about corruption.
Yeah, despite his age he is a sharp as a knife. "Putin knows everything!" This is so out of place for Gorbachev to say that it can't be construed for anything else than criticism veiled behind sarcasm.
Putin saved Russia and Gorbachev should be rotting in hell for his stupidity!
Command_Unit He may have saved the day but he destroyed the age
@Ignacio Muñoz Diaz No it wasn't, he was saying that everything is rigged.
Alex4Lolz If you call that corruption, then the same percentage goes for Trump supporters.
He got his job wrong. When he was hired as the soviet leader, in the job description was: dictator wanted, to rule an empire. And he gave the power out of his hands, and then the empire collapsed
He was a kind soul then and you can see he still is. I don't remember any discredit from western news back then.
His time as General Secretary feels like ancient history to me. It’s crazy to see that he’s still alive. The way we learn history in school makes it seem like the collapse of the Soviet Union was a century ago, when really it hasn’t even been 30 years.
Were the hell do you live were they teach modern history?
@@averageborincano9691 In Russia they teach
Lol, completely agree
Collapse of the Soviet Union has been a boon to the sex industry and just imagine being homeless in -20degrees centigrades
@@vijayafernando1 Lol there was not a single homeless person in the Soviet Union
I would not have recognized him (Except for the wine stain). He outlived Reagan and Thatcher.
michaelterry1000 also Boris yeltsin too
He was younger than both of them.
@@ricardoguisadosanchez-tera8823 True, younger than Reagan by 20 years.
Yet he was closer to chernobyl than them
@@ColeMacGrathgr obviously the governments not telling us something
Many Russians call him 'too soft', 'traitor etc too.
You see this is the price of being 'decent' in todays world. You will be called too soft and not actually remembered for the incredible humanity in your heart. On the other hand, being aggressive will lead you to being called other names as well. Us humans will judge anything. Thats how it is in here. The sooner the young ones learn that, they can live on this planet a bit more easily and be able to breath easy. Just live it!, fck what they call you. (hopefully ull live as a good man, ignore the terminologies, praise or abusive judgement)
Yep. To have a good heart is bad now a days. Your looked at as weak. You have to adapt to evil environments.
He sold his country to the highest bidder, turned educated women into prostitutes, and all over a pipe dream. He’s as traitorous as it comes
Mr.Gorbachov had decisions I would not have made. Hindsight is 20/20 - So I say: I would have been wrong and he was just right. He is different.He`s simple-yet an icon!
I like Gorbachev because he has a map of the Philippines tattooed on his head :)
it used to be map of india!
@احمد ابو حسنين At least my writing is not backwards BAWAHAHAHA :)
@احمد ابو حسنين it's actually funny
This thread be lit af
That's the South America, isn't it?
"Old soldiers never die; they just fade away."
Fade = dying
@@thelastcommander8765 lol.thats not what he meant
Old soldiers never die: they just smell that way.
What's the name of the song Steve played with piano at the end of the video? Is it USSR anthem?
Нет. Это песня времён Великой Отечественной Войны. Называется "Тёмная ночь".
А в самом конце он сыграл несколько нот из песни "Мурка".
А гимн СССР звучал на первых секундах ролика.
Man with heart full of humanity..... Power may be secondary to humanity! 🙏🏼
Why do people hate him? I learnt in history classes is that he tried to save USSR through reforms but failed and in the end he allowed a peaceful transition of power without turning Russia into Syria.You may criticise his reforms but his reforms were actually peaceful and intended to help the soviet people and end the Cold War.
You right! But, in our country some people think that he was an american agent and specifically destroed USSR. And much people do not like him, simply because he failed his reforms and did not save USSR.
March 17th 1991 there was All-Union referendum. "Would you like to save USSR?" - there was the question. 77,85 % of all people said YES. How do you think what is the reason why people hate him?
People hate him because
1) vast majority of them lived better under the Soviet Union
2) his incompentence in keeping it going... the USSR didn't collapse, at least the old one, it was his perestroika that destroyed the economic (and political) base on which a soviet style planned economy functioned.
3) his impotence, fear during and after the 91 coup, and inability to keep the sharks like Yeltsin at bay from 1985 ownards. He led Russia to the brink of an abyss, and then let Yelsin push her over the edge.
His impotence made hundreds of millions across eastern europe, asia and the middle east suffer (for example, Iraq war would never have happened). Hundreds of thousands all over europe died because of his action, inaction and general impotence.
While it's not only his fault (most of it is Yeltsins, in fact), he has the greatest responsibility for ending, through his incompetence, something that was worth saving, that many people miss today.
That piece of shit deserves a special place in hell, for trying to fill shoes so big he drowned in them.
In a nutshell.
you're right, it really hate. Don't blame Gorbachev, he is not to blame for the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the USSR was bad, inefficient planned economy that destroyed the Soviet Union, and Gorbachev tried to change it, but stumbled upon Brezhnev's "sheep" who don't like change, and Yes, he didn't have the nerve. And Gorbachev how to blame for the deaths around the world? He has eliminated the block of ATS, he withdrew Soviet troops from Europe, about NSE did the right thing. But NATO took advantage of this and made the whole of Evapo their missiles. It is NATO and the US destroyed Iraq, not Gorbachev. And that is because NATO is now happening in Ukraine, the collapse of, not because of Gorbachev. If amercians wanted peace, they would have respectly NATO, but they didn't, so it's their fault in the deaths of people, not Gorbachev.
Andrew Da Great his capitalist reforms caused a major famine
USSR: did you do it
Gorbachev: yes
USSR: what did it cost?
Gorbachev: *everything*
And thank god the ussr fell apart
@@romanrussu3403 I see you are one of "those" people
@@danielp1728 thank God the u.s. is collapsing now
@@crowfan9067 USSR was actually good sometime.Genocide during Stalins period tho
@@ayyappanchithambaram4575 the instability increased every year since 2015... that is worrying.
Bcuz of this man now America is considered as superpower. If he did order for the battle the results would have been different as of now.
Mr Gorbachev was a proper statesman. I loved his subtle comment on Putins public support , its 86%, soon it will be 120%.
Gorbachev is so proud of his work in Russia that he doesn't even live there anymore,he lives in Germany
is that supposed to make any difference?
He cant live in russia, its too dangerous if he does. People want to kill him there or the oppsitite
To be fair if he moved back to Russia he’d probably be killed
He is scared
@@waynebais1783 who wouldn't be scared if they know there are people ready to kill them?
Anyone who doesn’t cling to power as long as possible.. that’s a sign of real strength the strength to step down
Millions died and entire nations were subjected because of his incompetence. Shock therapy destroyed russia and other former soviet republics.
@@David-bh5le ok I’ll delete the part of my comment where I said he was perfect. Oh wait I never said that
@@nick1834 haha thats a fair point. However i dont think that him resigning was a sign of strength.
He had wanted to transform the USSR into democratic socialist style economics(like modern day Scandinavia). And he thought that in order to change the economic system he would have to first change the political system. Glasnost backfired, yeltsin was put in power, and shock therapy was pushed. Gorbachev failed the reforms he wanted. He was weak and so many Russians died because of it.
@@David-bh5le That is an obvious and expected reaction if a certain government is dissolved. He already did well because he prevented Russia from having a civil war. There was an attempted coup but the people has no interest on supporting it.
@@David-bh5le Scandinavia are social democracies, not democratic socialist countries, but other than that well said, quite interesting.
When my son Paul was 10years old i video taped him sitting on Mr Gorbachev's lap and my 8 yea old daughter was sitting on his wife's lap and My wife Antonina was talking to both Mr Gorbachev and his wife in both Russian and Ukrainian. She was a Russian, French and Spanish language teacher with 2 Masters degrees from the University of California at Davis. She looked like Doris Day the movie star. She crashed the Banquette held in Mr Gorbachev's honor at the 100th commencement of the graduating class of Northeastern University in Boston. I was attending my 25th class reunion. I graduated with a BSME degree in Mechanical engineering class of 1973. I carried the American flag into the fleet center to lead the graduation class in. Mr Gorbachev was the featured speaker. He has the best speaking voice next to my fathers that i ever heard. He gave a one of a kind awesome speech. My wife and kids saw me on the big screen TV of the fleet center as i carried the flag in. My wife passed away in 2010 at age 60 from inflammatory breast cancer. Now i can say for certain Mr. Gorbachev is a very honorable man. I am American and very lucky to have attended Northeastern University in Boston and graduating. Our house was flooded and i no longer have the video tap. But I can still hear Mr Gorbachev's voice in my brain. He has a very good grip when he shakes your hand. I am now 75 years old living in senior housing in CT. I had 5 strokes and 4 heart attacks and my heart was shocked twice. I will never live as long as Mr Gorbachev. He Made a huge difference in our world. He would never order Ukraine to be attacked like Putin did. I am American with a Polish American mother and an American, Ukrainian father. I am not political but I am against this war with Ukraine. My fighting days are over. We are still the land of the free and the home of the brave. So help Ukraine before it is too late. They are asking for help.
Thank you!
if anyone wants to know what song was played at the end it was "dark night"
Knock Knock Knock,
Did someone say 'BirthMarks'?
And you all need to know how to handle real power
Did somebody say real power?
@@X_A_ic Da! You wanna mess with me, I spit hot borsch when I'm crushing these beats.
YOOOOOOOOOO
O came.here to make this joke but you got It first
Birth of Marx*
2:08
Yeah I'm pretty sure everyone who listens to Soviet songs loves them, even people who hate communism lol
What have Soviet songs have to do with communism? It's like saying that American songs are capitalist songs.
@@kensukefan47 kinda is lol
Sounds like a peaceful song you’d play at night around a fire soldiers chillin out smoking and drinking while firefights take place miles away
@@isisarefucbois7627 that feels good
ehhh this sounds less commie and more like a peacful song ,still i like it :P so whats the name
Can one day USA break like USSR did?
Us dollar bill is collapsin soon comrade
As a kid my mum used to watch Mikhail Gorbachev on TV, that was 47 years ago
"Stepping down was my victory."
Wooow..!
I wonder, how many man could say this one...
Gorby is a shit . His whole life was dedicated for pizza😅 . He destroyed USSR for pizza
@@anoop1555 without him you wouldn't be making this comment
@@9lwa- how so.
He didn't achieve anything teally.he had no choice but to step down
He saved people lifes! He offered his power!
It's Brezhnev to blame for killing the Soviet Union. Gorbachev tried to save it but failed, but I respect his decision and he saved millions of lives
It's communism that was to blame for killing the Soviet Union.
Both of them weren’t communist
Oh come on. Despite the mistakes of Brezhnev there is no reason to assume that USSR would cease to exist. This man, however, took it on a path where there was no coming back and then that idiot Yeltsin
@@daniyalnaqvi2569 And that's by kissing everyone he met.
lmfao Brezhnev did everything for the motherland he also played an important role before his final reigns, the Soviet-Afghan war (1980s) and i dont think you know anthing and his controversial to the USSR 'cause youre a capitalist
the most decent man, in truth, and in respect for all, who had dissovled the U.S.S.R. to keep world peace, instead of bloodshed, for humanitys sake, and to not carry
the burden of noteriety, for decisions regarding the future of the people, and being guilty of the death of millions.
Actually he saw the writing on the wall.
He is not loved back home so see him as a traitor and i kinda understand why he wasn’t given a state funeral he was buried next to his wife at a cemetery in Moscow oblast
YOU'VE MADE LAVA?!
Androandroandrica Len 3.6 Roentgen. Not great but not terrible.
Mark Robertson fake hbo negro America Jamaica
I....anticipated this..
@Michael mr gorbachev you have ink on your head
Now I know how nuclear reactor works, I don't need you
He gave up the Soviet union for pizza hut.
He knew he can't out-pizza the hut
@@SurajSinghTomarArya lmao
@Human Being grass is greener on the other side believe me i am friends Russian and they don't have favourable opinions putin .
@Human Being no if Putin was there instead of Yeltsin Russia Kazakhstan and Belarus, also maybe even Ukraine would stay as USSR
@Human Being no there was no real way the ussr couldn't have collapsed it has multiple religions and cultures and the states wanted independence it would have been a civil war like Gorbachev said
*I hadn't seen Gorbachev in 25 years. He's changed so much.*
Yeah he looks like a completely different person here than he used to
A very astute man and leader with alot of common since and a mind still sharp at 85 yrs
from the little i've heard and read of Gorbachev, he comes off as a genuinely good and sensible man. Also a patriot who put the best interest of his country and people before his own interests, a true leader who deserved the respect and love of his people.
He was waaay too nieve to be the head of state, he was an idealist, similar to Tzar Nick II the head of state needs to be practical, just like Putin ;)
To some extent that should be true. But still I think this man is a much better human being than Putin, Yeltsin, Brezhnev, Stalin, and Trump.
You Like Cars Actually, I'm glad that my country joined the Soviet Union. Without it, it would be a backwards 3rd world country.
You Like Cars lol? How you said, we sell oil and gas. But, much more. Ever heard of Kalashnikov? Or import and export of fruits, vegetables etc.?
You Like Cars We're weak? No, Russia is too weak for not diversifying their economy in time. Just wait and see how Europe is switching to solar energy (thanka to your country's ally China) and biological alternatives to oil. Manipulating the West by outdated Soviet tactics like fake news isn't going to work anymore.
I mean, you gotta feel for him. Stopped a civil war in a nation that was already collapsing when he took power and all he’s remembered for is ending it.
Poor guy.
He paved a way for it's start though without a lot of consideration what can be with such huge giant with his experiments
He's a good man, and the choice he made saved the country.
@@derpynerdy6294 what choice. What civil war you dumbasses, he's worst nightmare at any point would have been dissolution of ussr, he never wanted it
Keep in mind, he only made minor reforms to try to help the people in a different way. He didn't want to dissolve the union. It was Boris Yeltsin and the presidents of Belarus and Ukraine, I think, that practically smashed the scales and displaced millions by voting to dissolve the union, and the major reforms only exacerbated the downfall's effects.
@@andrewtran4237 it ain't so simple. But looking at events i just can say that none of them new the fuck they were doing
Gorbachev has my deep respect that the World still exists.
I wonder who was part of that treachery Mr Gorbachev
Gorbachev singing "The Dark Night" is one of the best things ever
"Comrade Belikov, we are in grave danger from the capitalists. Our collective, our very way of life is at risk."
Operation greenlight is a go
he gotten so fat
We got a job to do
I kNoW yOu WoNt Fail uS
In cod Cold War: strong, tough and determined
In real life: Reagan my country fell apart
Mikhael Gorbachev still alive, while Ronald Reagan already passed away, I’m born in 80’s and I felt those year how the tensions between those 2 super power. I never hate them both, but I’m glad I was witnessing 2 great countries in their prime.
"soon it will be 120%" Hmmm.
*"You can make it my friend, you will always survive"*
*As heroes, we will return to Russia's embrace*
Today, it would seem like the Cuban people would disagree, also it would seem like the Hong Kong people would disagree, and I guarantee the North Korean people too if they actually knew anything about the outside world.
@@FATHOLLYWOODB123 No, hong kongers like being part of china
@@Freeaviator then why in 2019 the protest and riots, they were flying British and American flags???
Me: So was Gorbachev a good President?
The whole comment section: Not great, not terrible.
@Tia agreed.
@@klif4755 only if Corruption was gone while Gorbachev was in the office
we would've still seen the Soviet Union till this day, to be honest
Ending a Union is better then people just shooting at their people
@@cantspeakcantspeak79 The problem is that so much of it was a forced Union, though, as people in the satellite states often still describe with repulsion, just like the US trying to meet foreign policy objectives by upholding brutal dictators--stupidly acting against their Founders' ideals, and then can't figure out why being divided against themselves fails with the local people. The Achilles heel of Communism and Marxism has always been compulsion. Put it in a voluntary context like the Hutterites or Tolstoy's communities or Indian ashrams and it can be very successful, but otherwise, forget it--never works, never will.
@American Ancap Sure, yeah, that's a darling system, there--really improved the world, and especially Germany, when it was employed. I guess it's always possible to try to be worse than Mao and Stalin.
Tia on the other hand, he’s the main reason it would’ve even started.
World:Why did u do all these.
He:I wanted to have a McDonald's
I don’t understand the headline, he said nothing about treachery or why the Soviet Union ended????
0:20 Watch Gorbachevs face. He had no clue what the guy was saying 😂
i heard здравствуйте and спасибо...
what
@@strafniki1080 idk
Can someone please tell me what that piano song at the end is called?
Edit: It's Тёмная Ночь
Dark night - темная ночь (in Russian)
There are many videos, e.g.
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Is being Silent Night is!
I want back my country! I was happiest child. He crashed.
Sleep well comrade.
Boris Yeltsin: *I had also went behind your back to make a deal with Ukraine and Belarus to dissolve the Soviet Union*
Gorbahev: *Dude. So uncool.*
OverSimplified reference-
Oversimplified fans everywhere
Yes ......oversimplified is spreading more faster than covid-19
@@sathyasteve1442 Is that a bad thing
@@Jenkowelten absolutely not.
@@Jenkowelten no bro ...that is soooo cool whereas covid 19 spreading is uncool
... except for the birthmark on his four-head he's almost unrecognizable...He did the Russia people a great service for stepping down to avoid civil war...
Thomas Schick Except he didn't really "step down", he was pushed aside after losing all credibility because of his cowardly behavior during the 1991 ГКЧП coup attempt. And there was absolutely no threat of any civil war at the time. Civil war between which groups? The only conflict was between the people and the corrupt communist leadership elite. The army clearly got on the side of people, by refusing to shoot during the 1991 coup. Gorbachev had nothing to do with that, he was cowardly hiding his ass in his vacation compound in Crimea, and he only resurfaced once the coup was suppressed. People didn't take him seriously after that, including the media, which was pretty much free and uncensored at that time.
dmitriy40 he wasn't involved in a coup, he was also arrested by the communist hard liners , but Yelstin did the public rally, he didn't after his release !!
Of course there was the threat of civil war. It was a tense time for the entire Soviet Union, trying to control the rapidly changing political sphere of the country. Let's not forget that violent ethnic and territorial conflicts were already happening in the South Caucasus in the late 1980s. Not all 15 republics of the USSR were besties, and not all of them wanted to hold hands together towards independence.
you dont know anything about Gorbachev, he had prepared everything to remove the communism in his country within his term
Thomas Schick Leslie neilsen wiped the birthmark off his forehead.
For the ones who are interested at the music in the end of the video, the first one is titled Dark is the night and idk about the 2nd one
так он же сам сказал "Мурка"
@@DonAnreu i translated your message, and oh damn my bad I didn't know he said the title of the music, I don't know russian sorry ;(( thank you by the way
@@clypt1859 песня «мурка» (классика шансона)
So the late Gorbachov warned us against Putin
no one:
Gorbachev: C'est la vie.
Shh German
why did you feel the urge to make this shitty meme with the most random caption of the video
@@domenicobulzis4397 let him or her have their fun
Your shitty joke doesnt even work and u prolly unironically say “no one:” befor everything you say
Shut up, and go drink your red wine and eat your baguettes.
Gorbachev is a smart man, he avoided extreme bloodshed and possible nuclear war
Daniel Paul The USSR didn’t work in the long-term & he knew it, much like after WW2, The British Empire didn’t work either.
After the Gdansk shipyards strikes with Lech Walenska & the Solidarity movement-the USSRs days were numbered, anyway.
Ironically the treacher is the only who brought perestroika, then came "Yeltsin" and made things worse.
I have heard a number of older people in today's Russia reminisce about the wonderful music of the USSR days that they seldom hear anymore. Apparently, there were some good and valued things about that time that we in the US were never made aware of.
The ussr needed putin as President twenty five years ago. The USA has chuck Norris, Russia has Vladimir Putin.
Putin does not bootlick the Zionists.
@Pendulous Testicularis POTUS is a disgrace when compared to Putin. Read history, moron!🙄
The Soviet Union died of self inflicted wounds.
@Ladey Babey The USSR was not communist, but state-capitalist.
@Ladey Babey But how could the soviet state massacre millions and get away with it ??? The czar massacred far fewer people and there was the Bolshevik revolution !
''Stepping down was my victory'' has the same energy as ''If you kill your enemies, they win''.
Gorbechev:" Treachery killed USSR" Yeah we can see that
I can’t imagine being the only person that was legit born in the USSR, to have come to power. N it was for 2 seconds.
Am I a joke to you?
@@comradevladimirlenin7887 You are given the fact that you didn't have the historical or causal understanding to know why Lenin is the one guy that _really_ couldn't have been born in the USSR.
@@L8Pl Oh no! You think I'm like that? If it was Stalin, you would have been in Gulag!
@@L8Pl Idk if he is doing it for likes it seems like he is enjoying playing around
Without Gorbachev, the Cold war would become a hot one
The Soviets had already found out in the Gulf War that their weapons and tactics, zealously emulated by the Iraqis, were no match for the U.S. That was a large part of their giving up on the Cold War. They had already lost. There was no point in pretending anymore.
@@jeffreykalb8810 Uh what are you talking about? The so called superior American army was unable to beat Korea and Vietnam. The soviet army was in the 70ts the strongest in the world. The only thing the USA was able was to bomb something but not fight.
@@jeffreykalb8810 The soviet weapons had defeated american weapons in Vietnam and Korea !
That’s a leader. Period
The real competitor to the US was USSR and not China.
For those who are wondering, the music at 2:05 is "Тёмная Ночь"
Thank you so much comrade I have been looking for the name of this song.
@@Raven27495 No problem!
Red User thanks comrade
Gorbachev wasnt cheeki breeki enough to hold the ussr together
What the fuck does "cheeki breeki" mean, you stupid oaf?
@@busterbiloxi3833
It's a Russian meme you clown.
What's a "Russian" meme, you piece of shit?
@@busterbiloxi3833 calm down!
Buster Biloxi A Russian meme is a joke or any form of entertainment that makes fun of your people i.e Russians
If it wanst for him, future leaders could've caused more destruction than former leaders.
The music that's played on the piano towards the end is so beautiful. At 2:08.
Is there a link to this music? I'd like to listen to it.
This man ended the Cold War and saved such an enormous country from civil war. Even though he's a communist, he's a true hero of our time.
he didn't have a choice
The fall of the USSR hasn't help Russians much
@@sjewitt22 Look at who they vote for. Maybe that's a clue at their plight
@@manospetridis4370 Who knows who they vote for the elections are rigged.
Yea he also saved Russians from a functioning civil society, and saved Russian children from not having to sell themselves sexually for money just to survive. What a hero. You are so ignorant of history, it’s pathetic
When Gorbachev plays call of duty 2
*You are a traitor to the motherland*
He should play black ops 2😂
@@givemethen-pass6182 and what, i bet you dont even play cod 1 or cod 2. it fits with the joke.
xD
HE SEEMS LEGENDARY AS HE STILL ENJOYS THE GLORIOUS SONGS
What is the piano song that plays in 2:23??