To some extent, the Chinese should thank Gorbachev for three main reasons:
First, he made a good "negative teaching material" for China's socialist construction and reform, providing a good reference for China to know which paths can and cannot be taken.
Second, he told China and the Communist Party of China a truth, a ruling party, a country, no matter how powerful and fearful it is, if it loses its original intention, separates itself from the masses, ignores the general needs and legitimate rights of the people, it will be bad. Economic and people's livelihood construction, obsessed with power politics and foreign hegemony expansion, will collapse sooner or later and will be abandoned by history.
Third, in terms of geopolitics and national security, the disintegration of the Soviet Union solved the most serious security threat facing China, and Gorbachev was the accelerator and direct promoter of the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
Since Sino-Soviet relations broke down in the 1950s and the Soviet Union embarked on the path of great-power chauvinism and revisionism, Sino-Soviet relations have been in constant conflict, and there have been local military conflicts in the areas bordering the northeast and northwest of China.
During this period, the Soviet Union stationed millions of troops on the border between the two countries and in Mongolia, and the leaders of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union had conceived of a foreign nuclear strike against China.
Young people today may not understand the enormous threat that the Soviet Union posed to China's national security at that time.
Given the huge disparity in strength between China and the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union had already achieved mechanization, and China's military, industrial and economic levels were still very backward, China had done a good job at that time. Once the Soviet army invaded from the north, the entire northern half of China would be reduced to The depth of the battlefield and the preparation for long-term combat with the opponent.
To this end, at that time, China was forced to start the construction of the third line, transferring major industrial and material production to the inland mountainous areas in the west, and leaders urgently evacuated the whole country. Throughout northern China, every unit and every household is engaging in "three defense education". , dig military tunnels and fortifications.
Not only that, the Soviet Union also extended its magic hand to the Indo-China Peninsula, formed an ally with Vietnam, supported Vietnam's expansion in the Indo-China Peninsula, outflanked the north and the south, and posed a serious threat to China's national security from the southern border.
The Soviet Union supported Vietnam's expansion in the Indo-China Peninsula, which seriously threatened China's border and political security. In 1979, it fought back against Vietnam in self-defense, and the PLA's chemical defense troops conducted emergency chemical defense and drug detection training.
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The threat posed by the expansion of the Soviet Union not only brought huge security risks to China, which was backward in strength at the time, but also put the United States, the world's number one power, under great pressure. In the 1900s, it reached a state of quasi-ally.
Now because of the tension between China and the United States, many people think that the security threat brought by the United States is very big. In fact, the gap between the strength and size of China and the United States is not the same as the gap between China and the Soviet Union in the past. The security threat is also far more serious, more direct, and worse in nature than the threat posed by the United States.
The security threats brought by the United States are mainly at the level of regime, system and culture, while the Soviet Union inherited the greedy nature of the land of previous tsars, committed to annexation of other countries' lands, and carried out systematic genocide against the people of the occupied areas.
Imagine if the Soviet Union had not disintegrated, and there had always been a powerful red chauvinist empire with a greedy desire for land and a strong tradition of expansion on the side of China's couch, what would the security situation facing China now be? The Ukrainian war conflict in Eastern Europe is not difficult to know.
Although the disintegration of the Soviet Union was the result of a long-term accumulation of a series of fatal problems, some institutional and legal roots were buried from the time of Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev, Gorbachev only accelerated He is not qualified to take full responsibility for the disintegration of the Soviet Union, but in any case, firstly, he improved Sino-Soviet relations during his tenure, and secondly, the disintegration of the Soviet Union in his hands can be regarded as a "great achievement" , China has since lifted the most serious security threat it has faced in a long time.
After Gorbachev's death, the spokesperson of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said at a regular press conference on the 31st, "Mr. Gorbachev made positive contributions to the normalization of Sino-Soviet relations. We are sorry for his death. Condolences and condolences to his family."
Only by understanding this experience between China and the Soviet Union and the complex history of the changing international political situation in the past few decades can we understand the diplomatic position of the Chinese government.
The above is to understand Gorbachev's "historical contribution" from the perspective of China's national interests.
From these two levels and dimensions, Gorbachev is indeed worthy of Chinese gratitude.
However, even so, from the perspective of political morality and governance capacity, it does not prevent us from drawing a deeper conclusion: Gorbachev is indeed a rare political idiot. ) to bring the motherland to the altar, thereby gaining acclaim in the Western world and certain Russian democrats as a state sinner, the largest, most ironic, and most inept in a human society for decades, if not centuries Super loser.
If marked by the ability to handle major crises, the politicians on this earth can be divided into four categories:
The first category, the greatest and most skilled political figures, often create crises, control them, and then use them to achieve personal dreams and historical hegemony. They are the creators of history.
The second category, the great and skillful political figures, often follow the trend. They are the promoters of history by controlling and taking advantage of crises to achieve their personal dreams and historical positioning.
The third category is some relatively incompetent political figures, they are unwilling and unable to make any historical waves, but the crisis comes to them. The ability to control is eventually overwhelmed by history.
The fourth category, and the most incompetent and stupid category, is super-confidence in themselves, thinking that they have found an absolutely correct way to save the country and the people. At the expense of interests, he tried to achieve his dream and hegemony, but in fact he was incommensurate with morality, ignorant of ambition and lack of talent, and had no ability to grasp the current situation and crisis. As a result, he was engulfed by the crisis he created and became a sinner of the country and history, and people’s ridicule. object.
Gorbachev clearly belongs to the fourth category of politicians, the most incompetent and stupid, as are Hitler and Mussolini.
Hitler.
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It's just that Hitler and Mussolini sacrificed the country and the people in exchange for death and the scourge of history, but Gorbachev was fortunately killed, and because of modern political progress, the Russians' complex complex towards the Soviet Union , as well as the confrontation of interests between the two camps of the East and the West and the evaluation standards of different ideologies, and the evaluation conclusions of different groups have been obtained.
This is the luck of Gorbachev, the luck of the West, the luck of Russian nationalists such as Yeltsin and Putin, and the luck of the 15 republics and oligarchs who achieved their dreams of independence and personal status at the expense of splitting the Soviet Union. To a certain extent, it is also lucky for China, but it is a great misfortune for the Soviet Union and the Soviet people who cultivated him and sent him to the post of national leadership!
With his stupidity and incompetence, he personally ruined his political life and his own motherland!
In his last speech, "A Letter to the People of the Soviet Union," Gorbachev described a vision to the people he led, a vision built at the expense of the motherland he personally buried, saying:
"We are living in a new era:
- We have ended the "Cold War", the arms race and the extreme militarization of the country that have been damaging to our economy, social consciousness and morality have ceased.
The threat of world war has been lifted.
- We have opened up to the world, no longer interfere in the affairs of other countries, and renounce the use of force abroad.
We are rewarded with trust, solidarity and respect.
- We have become one of the main pillars of the reconstruction of modern civilization in accordance with the principles of peace and democracy.
- All peoples of all nations have been given practical freedom to choose their own path of self-determination.
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Judging from the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the past few decades, from the perspective of Russian politics and the current world pattern and changing trends, what a stupid, naive, and what a conclusion that lacks historical insight!
The people of the former Soviet Union and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union sent such a superficial government guy to the highest leadership position, how could it be possible to continue to sacrifice the life of this country and party?
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Gorbachev talks to Soviet TV news reporters after arriving from Crimea at Vnukovo airport outside Moscow following a failed three-day coup by Russian Communist Party hardliners.
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He declared the end of the Cold War, the end of the arms race, the removal of the threat of a world war, are these things really over?
Has peace really come?
——No, not at all, just another way, a different track, and a new one.
He declared "to stop interfering in the affairs of other countries and to renounce the use of force abroad. We are rewarded with trust, solidarity and respect."
- Are these realized?
Not a single one, not only not, but the fact in every way ran counter to his wishes.
He declared that the Soviet Union "has become one of the main pillars of the reconstruction of modern civilization in accordance with peaceful, democratic principles."
——Not only has this wish not been fulfilled, but Russia has returned to history in all aspects, a history earlier than the Soviet Union.
The electoral mechanism has not only failed to solve the problems of the lack of democracy and individual rights that the Soviet Union once faced. On the contrary, it is causing more and more problems in Russia, around the world, and even in the United States and Europe, the strongholds of the electoral mechanism.
He declared that "peoples of all nations have been granted practical freedom to choose their own path of self-determination".
——The people of Ukraine and Iraq may not be able to help but cry when they hear it.
A member of the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces holds an NLAW anti-tank weapon in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 9, 2022.
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In his final speech, he defended his political incompetence and failure to reform, saying, "We have more of everything: land, oil and gas, other natural resources; intelligence and talent. Our lives are far worse than in developed countries. , more and more behind them.” He believes that these problems will no longer exist in the post-disintegration of the Soviet Union (mainly Russia).
——However, after "shock therapy", Russia's economy has not only failed to improve. Instead, it has become more dependent on the export of raw materials such as oil and natural gas. Its economic level and influence are not as good as those of the former Soviet Union. a province.
You must know that the Soviet Union a few decades ago was essentially a "celestial kingdom" to China and the CCP. It is really hard to say what China and the Chinese Communist Party would be like today without the assistance of the Soviet Union.
At that time, in terms of industry, technology, economy, per capita income and living standards, the Soviet Union was a giant and unattainable existence to China. Moscow only allocated a fraction to assist China in completing 156 projects in the 1950s. Large-scale industrial projects, which laid the most primitive foundation of China's early industrialization, a decision in the Kremlin, the whole world is nervous and wide-eyed.
In today's Russia, what else is there besides energy and nuclear weapons?
What else can you compare with China and the United States?
Who is the initiator of this situation?
A political leader has many responsibilities, but in the final analysis, it depends on whether he can advance the progress of human history, whether he can make the country and nation strong, whether he can provide the people with life security, and let the people live a good life.
Did Gorbachev do this?
No, not at all!
Human history is still spinning in the same place, and even some regressions have occurred. Russia has not only become stronger, but has become weaker. The living standards of the Russian people, including political and economic freedom, have not improved, but have experienced serious regressions.
As far as Gorbachev is concerned, he has also fallen from the top of the pyramid of a superpower. After destroying his own country, he has fallen to the point where he depends on the face of his younger generation and makes a living by acting as an endorsement for Pizza Hut.
If such a person is not an incompetent political idiot, a rare super loser in history, what kind of person is?
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