Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and last president of the former Soviet Union, died in Moscow on August 30, local time, at the age of 91.
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his deep condolences and sent a message of condolence to his relatives in the morning.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres tweeted his condolences, saying, "Mikhail Gorbachev was a unique statesman who changed the course of history. "
The last leaders of most countries in history have ended miserably, and the last tsar of Russia was beheaded by the whole family.
But as the last leader of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev still enjoys mourning after his death.
This unusual situation is not due to Gorbachev's unrivaled political and military skills as a political figure.
This is a product of the special era of the Cold War.
Gorbachev's pro-Westernization directly led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union. As former US Secretary of State Baker said, "The end of the Cold War is entirely due to one man - Gorbachev, without whom all changes would not have happened." Gorbachev. Gorbachev’s actions are deeply in line with the values of the United States and the West. Gorbachev is regarded as a classic, and he is even named as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, the German Reunification Prize, and the American Medal of Freedom. In essence, it is still a political ideology. continuation of the struggle.
Gorbachev was placed under house arrest during the coup in August 1991 and returned to parliament in August.
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He was originally a leader who led the Soviet Union to defend socialist values, but he became a tool and evidence that the West could overthrow socialism.
His life ended as early as December 25, 1991 in a televised speech announcing his resignation from the presidency of the Soviet Union.
The rest of his life is an endless shame.
No one would have imagined that from 1993 to the two years before his death in 2020, he has been playing the role of himself in history as his main business, starred in hundreds of films, commercials, games, TV series, documentaries, and made himself a living being. an actor.
Although he was once unwilling to be ruthlessly abandoned by the political process, he began to run for president.
But in the 1996 Russian presidential election, he received a humiliating 1 percent of the vote.
It can be said that for more than 30 years since 1991, he has been reminiscing about the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, and his life plummeted after reaching the climax in 1991. After that, his existence was limited to symbolic meaning.
If you want to judge acting skills, no one can play himself better than Gorbachev, but as a political figure, he really does not deserve any praise.
The disintegration of the Soviet Union was not because he promoted a liberalization reform out of his yearning for democracy and freedom, but more because he was a cowardly leader who was unable to control the power of Nuoda, and caused a catastrophe.
At a critical historical moment, he did not have enough political wisdom and courage to turn the tide.
As a contemporary political figure, Gorbachev has absolutely no way to compare with Deng Xiaoping.
The picture shows Deng Xiaoping meeting with Gorbachev in 1989.
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As Fu Jingjun said in the book "The Ruble Credit Crisis and the Disintegration of the Soviet Union", in terms of decision-making ability, Gorbachev obviously did not have the ability to transform the Soviet Union, a superpower with a potential crisis.
And when history forces mediocre politicians to complete the daunting task of turning a corner, a historical dislocation occurs.
Russia did not completely bring down Gorbachev, and Putin even mourned him, because of the need to unite the majority of the nation.
From 1991 to the present, the relationship between Russia and the West has never eased for a moment, and the continuous hostility to the current situation of the Ukrainian war has once again proved how naive Gorbachev's political illusions about the West were.
Putin's 20 years of civil and martial arts, all political efforts, are nothing but to restore Russia's geopolitical existence and historical glory in the Soviet era.
From this level, we can spy on Putin's true attitude towards Gorbachev.
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