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. Originally published at - www.rferl.org/...
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@Waldo9093 жыл бұрын
To think that Gorbachev is still alive while others such as Reagan, Bush sr, Thatcher, Kohl and Yeltsin are dead
@flyingsandwich99873 жыл бұрын
Bush SR., Yeltsin, Helmut Kohl, Reagan, And Margaret Thatcher were born before him, it's super logical
@Waldo9093 жыл бұрын
@@flyingsandwich9987 True, but Kohl was only one year older and Yeltsin just one month in comparison with Gorby
@famousplan26932 жыл бұрын
Jimmy Carter is still alive.
@abenalif21472 жыл бұрын
@@flyingsandwich9987 laughs in Mahathir
@josephsmith41432 жыл бұрын
Tough country boy, that's all.
@hansgoober353 жыл бұрын
The first and last Soviet Premier to be born in the USSR
@monsieur19363 жыл бұрын
Actually General secretary but ok
@billsamuls76203 жыл бұрын
FROM ENGLAND LOVERLY MAN MAY YOUR KIND LIVE ON
@michaelpocci18763 жыл бұрын
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.
@monsieur19363 жыл бұрын
@@michaelpocci1876 yeah
@elaala45013 жыл бұрын
Worst traitor in the history
@FlagAnthem3 жыл бұрын
Just realized he's older than his predecessors
@amirkhormodi11643 жыл бұрын
Oh shit youre right
@a-10wartaboo773 жыл бұрын
Modern day Russia has a low male life expectancy like an okay African nation.
@jBread283 жыл бұрын
eyy it's flagandanthemguy!
@SirDankleberry3 жыл бұрын
@@a-10wartaboo77 And what was it during the USSR?
@pashauzan3 жыл бұрын
@@SirDankleberry medieval? Nah
@brose23233 жыл бұрын
Dang, he's still alive. A pivotal figure in world history.
@Erwin_Von_Heidenheim3 жыл бұрын
And what did he get in retern, a stab in the back from yeltsin
@glebb..34163 жыл бұрын
Turned my country into a shithole.
@zxsium40593 жыл бұрын
@@glebb..3416 Yeltsin did.
@glebb..34163 жыл бұрын
@@zxsium4059 Gorbachev, yelzin and Putin all three did it.
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.
@readisgooddewaterkant78902 жыл бұрын
I agreee very much
@francis875892 жыл бұрын
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.
@historyrepeat4022 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@xxidontknowreally98752 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@paperoga792 жыл бұрын
Now the world should face Putler 😥
@punitasingh84483 жыл бұрын
One should appreciate the fact that his memory is still intact at this age ....
@maxflight7773 жыл бұрын
Fascinating to compare with Biden who is clearly ill.
@anoon-3 жыл бұрын
@@maxflight777 Yet he still won against Trump. You had to be very fucked up to lose to a dementia patient.
@phish88772 жыл бұрын
@@anoon- he forgor💀
@nyl0n7332 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@thsimpsonsguy2 жыл бұрын
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.
@seamusmckeon91092 жыл бұрын
It’s incredible that he’s still alive. Truly a piece of history
@staffy43893 жыл бұрын
He's considered a traitor by a lot of Russians, especially in is own birth place.
@whiteboijared76303 жыл бұрын
Bald And Bankrupt made a good video about this.
@Umar-kj6pd3 жыл бұрын
@@whiteboijared7630 which video
@whiteboijared76303 жыл бұрын
@@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 👍
@glebb..34163 жыл бұрын
Because he is one. Gorbachev, yelzin and Putin are traitors.
@brianbozo24473 жыл бұрын
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.
@congoclash3 жыл бұрын
Loved in the West, hated in his country as a traitor. That sums him up in a nutshell.
@hankramo11963 жыл бұрын
Nope he was a wise man for not starting a war with the west
@Makrania3 жыл бұрын
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.
@saulgoodman54513 жыл бұрын
In Lithuania (politically, west) , we hate him, just like every communist leader. Fucking morons
@musamusashi3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@saulgoodman54513 жыл бұрын
@@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
@unggrabb2 жыл бұрын
Bring Gorbachev back. Old but sane.
@adeelmukhtarh2 жыл бұрын
When Mahatir could come in Malaysia in his 90s, why couldn't Gorbachev
@tonyjohansson75673 жыл бұрын
What an interesting life this guy must have lived. They should make a russian version of The Crown about Gorbachev's life.
@wyattmcgee13 жыл бұрын
100% agree.
@KamaAnthem3 жыл бұрын
The Tovarisch
@flaviafilofie23243 жыл бұрын
Imagine how many young women probably expect Merkel to resign.
@maxflight7773 жыл бұрын
What a fabulous post. 👍
@lttrhd3 жыл бұрын
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!
@TheonlyCslab3 жыл бұрын
Death: “Time to go” Gorbachev: “Was i a good Soviet leader?” Death: “some would say”
@kobra66603 жыл бұрын
Would've been if yelstin didn't ruin the ussr in the first place
@cresfirc73493 жыл бұрын
@@kobra6660 The fall of the USSR was inevitable, No matter about Gorbachev, People wanted freedom and they got it
@babukansabanik62922 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@nyl0n7332 жыл бұрын
@@babukansabanik6292 Sorry but people hate the United States because of righteous police shootings so I don't see what you are getting at.
@roypruysvdhoeven18552 жыл бұрын
SOME ...? I WOULD SAY ... WE ALL SAY HE WAS CERTAIN A GOOD SOVJET LEADER ! THE ONLY ONE ! GOD BLESS HIM...
@youtubesketches1102 жыл бұрын
The world wasn't good enough for Gorbachev's greatness.
@readisgooddewaterkant78902 жыл бұрын
I agree so much
@b-squad1842 жыл бұрын
This guy has 1000 iq
@b-squad1842 жыл бұрын
Gorbachev is kind apart man
@jrexx28413 жыл бұрын
Blame Yeltsin not Gorbachev
@mottscottison69433 жыл бұрын
The fact is Gorbachev was weak and exploited left and right by friends and foes.
@gabe.62733 жыл бұрын
Cringe imagine watching Ben Shapiro.
@SuperFra20023 жыл бұрын
I agree with you, but Gorbachev could have done more
@calenskyes3 жыл бұрын
tbh both are to blame, im right-wing btw.
@cacampbell36543 жыл бұрын
@@mottscottison6943 Please provide credible evidence to prove that your perspective is accurate!
@cooljackster73902 жыл бұрын
R. I. P. Mikhail Gorbachev, 1931-2022
@janjantimalsina1465 Жыл бұрын
🙏 🪦
@tommymecousinlostmecar41652 жыл бұрын
RIP Gorbi, you were one kind of a leader.
@bigfudge20312 жыл бұрын
It would be interesting to hear his thought on the current situation.
@katerilevasseur81192 жыл бұрын
He saw is coming...
@matthewwhitton57202 жыл бұрын
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.
@GabrielGarcia-km2ou3 жыл бұрын
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
@walterclements_3 жыл бұрын
he is a cia agent. a traitor
@MTTC-me5dj3 жыл бұрын
And now... its America turn
@markoj81403 жыл бұрын
When he said the beggining of a new cold war, well he isnt wrong!
@ronblack78702 жыл бұрын
except now it's a real war of aggression.
@FutbolCards2 жыл бұрын
I respect Gorbachev for his refusal to crackdown on the former Soviet states which declared their independence. RIP Gorbachev
@jaydesigns12363 жыл бұрын
Host with the most glasnost.
@Sneed19993 жыл бұрын
Assholes made a mess and the war got cold
@Sneed19993 жыл бұрын
@Joseph MALLOUHI If your name ends with in time to get out.
@jaydesigns12363 жыл бұрын
@@Sneed1999 Did somebody say, bearthmarks?
@Sneed19993 жыл бұрын
@@jaydesigns1236 You fool what did you do
@jaydesigns12363 жыл бұрын
@@Sneed1999 starting from the beginnin lol
@k-isfor-kristina2 жыл бұрын
Can we get a statement from this man while he's still around, on the current situation?
@alanharvey97202 жыл бұрын
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!
@user-nn7mg3bp4u2 жыл бұрын
yesss
@TheCandiceWang2 жыл бұрын
Yes, PLEASE!!!!!
@user-nn7mg3bp4u2 жыл бұрын
@@TheCandiceWang amazing he was removed in the 90s due to health issues and now he will outlive putinka
@TheCandiceWang2 жыл бұрын
@@user-nn7mg3bp4u hopefully he will indeed outlive the monster
@Andrew-jh5kj3 жыл бұрын
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.
@WM-gf8zm3 жыл бұрын
no
@malcer95403 жыл бұрын
no
@MsLS83 жыл бұрын
Everything he has done only for himself, his family is the only the beneficiaries of his actions
@5Penkets3 жыл бұрын
@@MsLS8 well he helped allot of people by destroying the terrorist regime.
@user-mb3dx5fl9f2 жыл бұрын
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.
@romanaleksandrovich82192 жыл бұрын
You know why God doesn't take Gorbachev away? Because he's afraid heaven may collapse.
@ludwigvanbeethoven54832 жыл бұрын
Lmao
@andreaandrea67162 жыл бұрын
Hilarious!
@alexkalish82882 жыл бұрын
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...
@lisavauhti76752 жыл бұрын
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
@dbrj20013 жыл бұрын
Thank you for tearing down the Berlin wall, I was young but I remember it.
@nazeem89653 жыл бұрын
i hope that some day i can still meet gorbachev and thank him
@slipnslide93083 жыл бұрын
You and your husband Michael
@glebb..34163 жыл бұрын
Thank him for destroying my country?
@karamvirsingh30973 жыл бұрын
Why 🤣 😂
@yankeesfor28633 жыл бұрын
@@glebb..3416 yeah look at his username
@5Penkets3 жыл бұрын
@@glebb..3416 for freeing many people from their misery.
@tf26643 жыл бұрын
Can’t believe he is still alive
@kathrynoreilly60642 жыл бұрын
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.
@user-yj5jg8xs2p2 жыл бұрын
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
@petritaromaa87342 жыл бұрын
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.
@kenowens90213 жыл бұрын
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.
@ghostrider26642 жыл бұрын
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.
@annedahl71513 жыл бұрын
Thank you ❤ dear Mikhail Sergeevich and yours 🌞
@FestiFesti313 жыл бұрын
#Anne #Dahl i love Gorbachev too
@nashestylez3 жыл бұрын
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.
@andreaandrea67162 жыл бұрын
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).
@charlesdayon84202 жыл бұрын
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.
@godsmackssa5 ай бұрын
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.
@karsaoblong26302 жыл бұрын
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.
@maxfilmsdotcom70793 жыл бұрын
Gorbachev was the only soviet leader that wasn’t a dictator
@sbevexlr8483 жыл бұрын
I mean you could include both Lenin and Khrushchev
@maxfilmsdotcom70793 жыл бұрын
sbeve XLR8 I guess
@sergey34823 жыл бұрын
@@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
@historyeditz83263 жыл бұрын
@@sergey3482 Lenin is 💯 better than Stalin if he remained then he make more stable Union than Stalin gulag union.
@lttrhd3 жыл бұрын
No, he was a traitor.
@suewatson91533 жыл бұрын
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.
@russtorque29932 жыл бұрын
What age were u in one-thousand-nine-hundred-eight-five?
@suewatson91532 жыл бұрын
25
@russtorque29932 жыл бұрын
@@suewatson9153 Why that's two point five decades of age. That now makes u a whopping six point two decades of age.
@sardarnikaur62582 жыл бұрын
Hello Gorby...much respect from California!
@boonteetan44483 жыл бұрын
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..
@JunnHoi2 жыл бұрын
It's fascinating that he's still alive. Long live Mikhail Gorbachev!
@owwerlord6921 Жыл бұрын
that didnt age well my dude :/
@sexmodtf2freepunjabinoviru1623 жыл бұрын
He made his country so great that he doesn't live there and moved to Germany
@i-blv32423 жыл бұрын
Congratulations, Mr. Gorbachev! I thank you for the freedom I have now!
@agnieszkabeatamagdalenaroj95203 жыл бұрын
The independent states in friendship - ingenious.
@jekich44333 жыл бұрын
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.
@Dan-Martin3 жыл бұрын
Bullshit lmao
@jekich44333 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@Dan-Martin3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@Chaika19743 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@Dan-Martin3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@rcforb52552 жыл бұрын
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.
@ironcheater10122 жыл бұрын
Ok, Noob
@senorswordfish60192 жыл бұрын
Ok, noob.
@stadtrepublikmulhausen41212 жыл бұрын
@@ironcheater1012 why is he a noob thats a fact
@ironcheater10122 жыл бұрын
@@stadtrepublikmulhausen4121 Name
@connoro13732 жыл бұрын
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.
@goldeq85212 жыл бұрын
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,
@uglaegilsdottir2 ай бұрын
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.
@mafiosomemer37303 жыл бұрын
I think Gorbi thanked Yeltsin for rescuing during that coup, he is not alone
@monichat3 жыл бұрын
What do you mean His name is Gorbachev, no ugly nickname for HIM please
@mafiosomemer37303 жыл бұрын
You're just a joy-killer
@monichat3 жыл бұрын
@@mafiosomemer3730 You are a pain in the neck. Have some respect for people's names. Most nicknames are ugly.
@mafiosomemer37303 жыл бұрын
*Loads a Makarov*
@monichat3 жыл бұрын
@@mafiosomemer3730 Yes macaroni
@cobaltbomba43103 жыл бұрын
This old bloke was responsible 4 pizza hut commercial back in the day, but he is still all over in history books.
@mikemancuso25263 жыл бұрын
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.
@vaoline3 жыл бұрын
@@mikemancuso2526 lmao
@gidmichigan17652 жыл бұрын
Dude, nothing wrong in being in a pizza hut commercial. They provide me my pizza's man.
@lttrhd2 жыл бұрын
As a treator
@justlooking4771 Жыл бұрын
He was a great man. The world was lucky to have him.
@ServulusBoboRiti3 жыл бұрын
Thankyou President Gorbachev for your great era to bring peace for the world as we breath today. A warm greetings from Jakarta Indonesia
@kevinhoffman65923 жыл бұрын
Gorbachev was ok . maybe world should take notes n remember history
@richardallison87453 жыл бұрын
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.
@user-rx2wq6se7h3 жыл бұрын
No matter what anyone says, his legacy in history is, without a doubt, assured. He is one of a kind.
@Tridhos3 жыл бұрын
የትናየት 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.
@johnlopez16043 жыл бұрын
ዝም በል ጅል
@drjaydeepdesai13 жыл бұрын
He is a good human being , but possibly , a misfit in bureaucracy !
@5Penkets3 жыл бұрын
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.
@drjaydeepdesai13 жыл бұрын
@@5Penkets.. Oh ! did'nt have info on that !
@charlesdayon84202 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@tommymiddlefinger12833 жыл бұрын
Gorbachev was pretty good in the opening scene of "The Naked Gun" movie!
@Dopendekhang3 жыл бұрын
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.
@user-mb3dx5fl9f2 жыл бұрын
I could have wished you something bad but since that's against KZfaq's T&C I will limit myself by telling bless your heart.
@lttrhd2 жыл бұрын
IS THE WORLD AT PEACE TODAY? ARE YOU MAD?
@NortonChold2 жыл бұрын
Gorbachev we miss you 😢
@congratsyoufoundmychannel10983 жыл бұрын
Wow... Mikhail Gorbachev and Jimmy Carter are some of the last ties we have to the Cold War era...
@randomonio3 жыл бұрын
Yes. But now we have Putin and Jinping leading the second cold war now.
@KillerofWestoids2 жыл бұрын
We get to watch Cold War 2.0 with us vs China live on TV and KZfaq.
@gwnlars_83063 жыл бұрын
Gorbachev looks just like a chill but sometimes cold, hard working person..
@mohdauzan62063 жыл бұрын
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.
@NikolaAvramov3 жыл бұрын
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.
@alyoya2 жыл бұрын
Gorbachev and Regan, the 2 extraordinary men who changed the world.
@bluefanofeverything43293 жыл бұрын
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?
@jzk39193 жыл бұрын
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.
@atlas2-13 жыл бұрын
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
@Abdirahman_Mohamed3 жыл бұрын
@@atlas2-1 true true
@woodrowwilson99923 жыл бұрын
He just really wanted pizza hut in USSR
@atlas2-13 жыл бұрын
@@woodrowwilson9992 lol yeah
@Frogs2005 Жыл бұрын
Неудивительно, что западные новости восхваляют человека, разрушившего СССР и Россию.
@O5-hans Жыл бұрын
It would have fallen anyways, he just made the death painless instead of a bloody civil war and anti communist revolution
@Frogs2005 Жыл бұрын
@@O5-hans lies. The USSR would never have gotten into such a situation had this bourgeois socialist destroy his homeland under sheer incompetence. Gorbachev is an assistant not a leader. Assistants assist the leaders who lead. Assistant have their own special jobs and are not meant to be leaders, assistants put their dependence on leaders. Given this, a juxtaposition of contrasting roles would leave a bad impact on the country. Gorbachev was meant to be at the side, not the front.
@ThisHandleWasTheOnly1Available3 жыл бұрын
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.
@vikngg3 жыл бұрын
Gorby is a CIA agent .,, he destroyed USSR and sold his own country
@mirabelkitty27353 жыл бұрын
This is uncomparable. Stalin was a militant revolutionary who became totalitarian maniac, gorba was a bureaucratic party administrator, who had to deal with the grim consequences of the derailed soviet empire and ideology. Wwiii was not a realistic scenario for him and i dont blame him for that.
@Dan-Martin3 жыл бұрын
@@mirabelkitty2735 It wasn’t derailed lmao but stabbed in the back by traitors. I suggest you look up the soviet referendum, most people voted to remain in the union, but the abolished it anyway. The ussr was a leader in science, space and was producing more scientists than any other country in the world. Russia is a complete joke in comparison. They had a system that respected and admired people STEM fields and praised them also. Our culture our kids looks up to the Kardashians...
@ThisHandleWasTheOnly1Available3 жыл бұрын
@@mirabelkitty2735 For all his faults and undeniable ruthlessness, Stalin took an agrarian, underdeveloped country with a largely illiterate population and weakened by almost a decade of warfare and civil strife and turned it into an economic and industrial superpower in a little over a decade. He then led it to victory in the war of annihilation over Nazi Germany and its European vassals. Now imagine if it had been Gorbachev leading the USSR in 1941, do you for one second think the country would have survived the initial Nazi onslaught? He would've crumbled like a beyatch and given up like the French and the rest of them.
@a.p.30043 жыл бұрын
@@ThisHandleWasTheOnly1Available You are absolutely right.
@ajiththomas32603 жыл бұрын
He was a great and original leader God bless him
@user-yv5fr6qh9x3 жыл бұрын
Sell his country in an original way?
@tokyo.peking2 жыл бұрын
Oh....title should be "MAN WHO CLOSED 70.000 FACTORIES"....
@roderickherbert72333 жыл бұрын
A good and understanding leader....He did great things for both sides
@5Penkets3 жыл бұрын
He killed many people.
@KerbalHub3 жыл бұрын
Happy birthday, comrade
@murphyandotherstuff68843 жыл бұрын
Wow! He's become Ed Asner.
@scarletttroquille33042 жыл бұрын
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.🍸🌹🐾🐻
@Onethirtytwo2 жыл бұрын
I would like to hear what he has to say about the war in Ukraine.
@cedricwaelti44872 жыл бұрын
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
@rederickfroders19782 жыл бұрын
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.
@GenetetIncorporated Жыл бұрын
And this is how Putin came to power to restore Russia's honor. And now the West pays the price… aka You reap what you sow.
@ioannisAss Жыл бұрын
Cope
@graceantonio35733 жыл бұрын
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! 😇
@rdrgtreer3 жыл бұрын
Did this man's failure not learn you anything?
@PRATEEKsirji3 жыл бұрын
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..
@prankulkhataur53383 жыл бұрын
He is a hero
@SkibidiGyattWRizzAmongUsOhio2 жыл бұрын
Yes
@monthycristo3 жыл бұрын
I want to meet him so much.
@SamirZeGeek3 жыл бұрын
Haha me too! ^O^
@aguywholikesmilitary53943 жыл бұрын
My respect to him. I would like shake his hand
@aguywholikesmilitary53943 жыл бұрын
@@user-yv5fr6qh9x He liberated Russia and other countries by giving the people the rights they deserve
@xvladdy5928 Жыл бұрын
Did I just notice correctly that at 0:38 till 0:42, he is making a cross?
@valerija.legasov5482 жыл бұрын
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!
@jerryteh61453 жыл бұрын
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.
@mouloudadjroud7163 жыл бұрын
انت لم تغير التاريخ، فقط قم بتغير ذالك إليك، فهذا هو الصواب...
@shorthistory19122 жыл бұрын
Rest in peace Gorbachev
@twinsen19493 жыл бұрын
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.
@angelabender81323 жыл бұрын
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
@bayuanggara3001 Жыл бұрын
Gorbachev is hero
@johnjohnson33703 жыл бұрын
He's a good man there should be more leaders like him
@evawind3 жыл бұрын
He was good for Us and West Europeans, not Soviets. Too gullible and the West took advantage and of this farm boy :(.
@iraqi36122 жыл бұрын
You mean a lot of traitors to their mother country
@johnjohnson33702 жыл бұрын
@@iraqi3612 thoughts like that is why Russia is in the state its in run by a tyrant and rampit alcoholism
@molotov70002 жыл бұрын
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
@tschoong38973 жыл бұрын
A historic mistake proved by subsequent events where what was said was forgotten years later. He was not there to verify anymore.
@cacampbell36543 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this, USA! I appreciate the update on this particular world figure! 👌🌟😊
@carlodipersio40423 жыл бұрын
@@mgdoff3389 thats what us propaganda did to him
@KiranKumar-um2gz2 жыл бұрын
Good man
@jeffreylebowski24402 жыл бұрын
The only soviet leader I've ever respected
@heberpelagio71613 жыл бұрын
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.
@russtorque29932 жыл бұрын
Sonny, u write too much in the tabloids.
@maxflight7773 жыл бұрын
Thatcher liked him !
@tokyo.peking2 жыл бұрын
Of course. But what about Russian ppl ???
@prathap.t88413 жыл бұрын
Mr. Corbachev is the Golden man and Golden leader!
@emanuellasker36503 жыл бұрын
Thank God for Gorby! A central player in pushing WW3 far into the future! May God receive him like a friend!
@monichat3 жыл бұрын
What an insult to call him Gorby, he is not american
@eniocvitanovic83443 жыл бұрын
Great man.
@FreedomLovingLoyalistOfficial3 жыл бұрын
Hi Gorbi.
@monichat3 жыл бұрын
His name is Mikhael Gorbachev please !
@harverc2293 жыл бұрын
Chav
@alextrust11862 жыл бұрын
The USSR enemies couldn't wish a better leader than Gorbachev!
@lordemed13 жыл бұрын
"Decades after losing power, he has continued to make his voice heard." hmmm... he has?