To think that Gorbachev is still alive while others such as Reagan, Bush sr, Thatcher, Kohl and Yeltsin are dead

The first and last Soviet Premier to be born in the USSR

Just realized he's older than his predecessors

Dang, he's still alive. A pivotal figure in world history.

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.

One should appreciate the fact that his memory is still intact at this age ....

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.

Loved in the West, hated in his country as a traitor. That sums him up in a nutshell.

Bring Gorbachev back. Old but sane.

What an interesting life this guy must have lived. They should make a russian version of The Crown about Gorbachev's life.

Death: “Time to go” Gorbachev: “Was i a good Soviet leader?” Death: “some would say”

The world wasn't good enough for Gorbachev's greatness.

Blame Yeltsin not Gorbachev

R. I. P. Mikhail Gorbachev, 1931-2022

RIP Gorbi, you were one kind of a leader.

It would be interesting to hear his thought on the current situation.

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.

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

When he said the beggining of a new cold war, well he isnt wrong!

I respect Gorbachev for his refusal to crackdown on the former Soviet states which declared their independence. RIP Gorbachev

Host with the most glasnost.

Can we get a statement from this man while he's still around, on the current situation?

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.

You know why God doesn't take Gorbachev away? Because he's afraid heaven may collapse.

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...

Thank you for tearing down the Berlin wall, I was young but I remember it.

i hope that some day i can still meet gorbachev and thank him

Can’t believe he is still alive

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.

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.

Thank you ❤ dear Mikhail Sergeevich and yours 🌞

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.

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.

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.

Gorbachev was the only soviet leader that wasn’t a dictator

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.

Hello Gorby...much respect from California!

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..

It's fascinating that he's still alive. Long live Mikhail Gorbachev!

He made his country so great that he doesn't live there and moved to Germany

Congratulations, Mr. Gorbachev! I thank you for the freedom I have now!

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.

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.

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 truly believed in peace, but the West didn't. Gorbachev took the Soviet forces out of Eastern Germany (and the rest of the Eastern Europe) because he wanted Germany to be unified. The West promised him "not a step more" beyond Eastern Germany. However, the West went back on its word to Gorbachev. NATO enlarged past East Germany all the way to the doorstep of Russia into Ukraine! In essence, Gorby made a pact with the wolves.

I think Gorbi thanked Yeltsin for rescuing during that coup, he is not alone

This old bloke was responsible 4 pizza hut commercial back in the day, but he is still all over in history books.

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

Gorbachev was ok . maybe world should take notes n remember history

No matter what anyone says, his legacy in history is, without a doubt, assured. He is one of a kind.

He is a good human being , but possibly , a misfit in bureaucracy !

Gorbachev was pretty good in the opening scene of "The Naked Gun" movie!

Gorbachev is great men. He truely deserved Nobel peace prize. I know most of the Russians resent him for breakdown of Soviet union but his called was for global peace. It's wrong and childish on part of the west for making it their triumphalism. Respect and regards to this great men. He has genuine concern for world peace and cooperation.

Gorbachev we miss you 😢

Wow... Mikhail Gorbachev and Jimmy Carter are some of the last ties we have to the Cold War era...

Gorbachev looks just like a chill but sometimes cold, hard working person..

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.

Gorbachev and Regan, the 2 extraordinary men who changed the world.

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?

Неудивительно, что западные новости восхваляют человека, разрушившего СССР и Россию.

Got nothing but bad things to say about the man. Weakness is worse than wickedness. Had Gorbachev not been so weak a ruler, millions wouldn't have perished in various wars, ethnic conflicts and such. He was solely responsible for reigniting the Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict that had been dormant for almost a century. Millions of lives lost and millions were never born in the breakup of the Soviet Union caused by his indecisiveness. For the people of the USSR Gorbachev was worse than Stalin. Both my grandfathers - God rest their souls - hated Gorbachev and a vast majority of Russian citizens still do.

He was a great and original leader God bless him

Oh....title should be "MAN WHO CLOSED 70.000 FACTORIES"....

A good and understanding leader....He did great things for both sides

Happy birthday, comrade

Wow! He's become Ed Asner.

God Bless him , and Glad he's still with us. I bet he misses PRESIDENT Reagan and those Good Days when the World was Good, Still. God be with you, hope you live Past 100 years old.🍸🌹🐾🐻

I would like to hear what he has to say about the war in Ukraine.

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

The west have treated Gorbachev really badly. He gave us a hand and NATO forcefully took both arms. Dishonourable. Gorbachev tried his best and what happened because of arrogance and disrespect was a Russia in chaos in the 90s. This was not the fault of gorbachev, it was the fault of hostilities from ourselves, the western powers.

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! 😇

Why is he blamed for disintegration? Why ppl say he should have done this and that..? Soviet union was disintegrating on it's own, it would have disintegrated even if he did something about it. Nobody can stop the idea whose time has come...I would rather say if he would have done something forcefully to stop the collapse, that would have led to massive bloodshed and violence. The fact that they collapsed without any violence as such is itself a victory..

He is a hero

I want to meet him so much.

Did I just notice correctly that at 0:38 till 0:42, he is making a cross?

Dear audiences, The wholle situation was more complicated, than: This man is good, that comrade is evil, these steps were good, these were wrong, ugly, The Perestrojka and Glasnost could save The USSR Vs. Could not work. I have to say openly, M. S. Gorbacov was my hero, together with V. Havel, R. Reagan, G. W. Bush - these heroes from my childhood are 100 % perfect! Are not they? No, they were not perfect at all, because nobody is! I was born in The Czechoslovakia in 1985, so I was 4 years old, when The Velvet revolution started and was 6, when The USSR colapsed. I learned a lot, because I am highly interested in the real life behind The Iron curtain, mainly in The CS and The USSR. The great missinformation is, that M. S. Gorbacov was "the father" of The Perestrojka, but this package of reformation was the idea presented by J. Andropov, who was supporter of Gorbacov. There were involved in exactly 3 persons: Riskov, Gorbacov, Dolgih. I lost one from my last ilusion few Years ago. The ilusion about hero from my childhood, because I realised, M. S. Gorbacov has tvo faces: 1st is world wide popular Gorbi as I knew him before (has only minnor personal flaws etc) And the 2nd is human beeing M. S. Gorbacov, who is not evil person, his personality is composed by pluses and minuses, of course. There were evil forces, who manipulated him to this and that needed situation and position. On the one hand, I highly appreciate his good work, but on the other hand, I am not worry to point out, he did a lot of misstakes and commited unjustices, for example: The Special forces (SPECNAS) was the elite forces of The Soviet army and there were unit - the best of the best, Alpha team. These guys had been deployed by his own command to respond against his own Soviet people. Nobody could sign that command / ordeer, than Gen. secretary of The CPSU, even The KGB was not authorised such order! I would like to recommend You memoirs by N. I. Riskov, B. Scerbina, Gen. N. Antoskin, Gen. N. Tarakanov, V. Legasov, I. Silajev, A. A. Borovoj, M. Legasova, I. Legasova, A. P. Aleksandrov and others, who were involved in the last stage - scientists, family members, The Politbiro of The CPSU members, C. C. of The CPSU, the government of The Soviet union. You can read books by M. Gorbacov, R. Gorbacova, J. Velichov, J. Jelcin and others, of course! I would like to point out, there were another reasons, why The USSR colapsed: The bloody war in Afghanistan, The Chernobyl NPP disaster and tragic, horrible earthquake in The Spytak city area in Armenia. Michael Sergejevic tould many times, The Chernobyl NPP disaster became the start of the end of The Soviet Union and I agree with him. There were wholle chains of events, with unclear and more difficult consequences and at the end was well known tragic year 1991. Nikolaj Ivanovic Riskov - the last prime minister of The government of The USSR sayd great idea: "I believe, Michael Sergejevic really did not want to destroy the state, where he was the elected president." , I would like to recommend You The Rabbithollefiles KZfaq, where You can find wide variety of highly accurate videos, in Russian with English subtitles. You can visit also this blog Itsmydutytotell.worldpress.com. I am member of the small group of enthusiasts, who runn this web. I would like to invite You, dear visitors, to my KZfaq. Thank You both for understanding as well as attention, stay safe and be healthy, take care!

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.

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Rest in peace Gorbachev

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.

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

Gorbachev is hero

He's a good man there should be more leaders like him

Lazer Kaganovich, Bolshevik leader at October revolution and closest ally of Joseph Stalin lived to see the destruction of Soviet Union. He was the last Bolshevik

A historic mistake proved by subsequent events where what was said was forgotten years later. He was not there to verify anymore.

Thanks for this, USA! I appreciate the update on this particular world figure! 👌🌟😊

Good man

The only soviet leader I've ever respected

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.

Thatcher liked him !

Mr. Corbachev is the Golden man and Golden leader!

Thank God for Gorby! A central player in pushing WW3 far into the future! May God receive him like a friend!

Great man.

Hi Gorbi.

The USSR enemies couldn't wish a better leader than Gorbachev!

"Decades after losing power, he has continued to make his voice heard." hmmm... he has?