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Gorbachev single-handedly ruined the Soviet Union, why did it win Putin's praise?

2022-09-04T01:10:51.116Z


The death of Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader, who was called by many in China a "criminal of history", is quite different in Russia and the West. It is understandable that the West praises him. After all, the Soviet Union


The death of Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader, who was called by many in China a "criminal of history", is quite different in Russia and the West.

It is understandable that the West praises him. After all, the Soviet Union ended in his hands, and the Cold War also ended during his tenure. Since then, the West has lost one of its most powerful enemies.

Why do many Russians, including President Putin, who is trying to revive the former Soviet Union's sphere of influence, agree with him, and even praise him?


Because of schedule conflicts, he was unable to attend Gorbachev's official funeral. On September 1, Putin specially rushed to the hospital where Gorbachev's body was placed in advance to send flowers and help the coffin to see Gorbachev farewell.

On March 2, 2022, at the height of the war in Ukraine, Putin also sent birthday wishes to Gorbachev. The relevant congratulatory letter was published on the official website of the Kremlin. In the congratulatory letter, Putin emphasized that Gorbachev was in Russia. It has played an important role in history, and even in the history of the world.

This scene is in stark contrast to his harsh criticism of Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev and other former Soviet leaders.

On February 21, 2022, before the outbreak of the Ukrainian war, Putin delivered a lengthy speech fundamentally denying the historical legitimacy of Ukraine, saying that the formation of modern Ukraine was "completely driven by Russia, or more precisely, by the Bolsheviks, The fact that communist Russia was created began. The process started almost immediately after the revolution of 1917.”

It is worth noting that in his speech, Putin also scolded Stalin and Khrushchev all the way from Lenin, accusing them of brutally hurting Russia's interests in the process of building and maintaining the Soviet Union, and should be responsible for the situation in Ukraine today.

He starts by criticizing Lenin, "Lenin and his comrades have dealt with Russia itself in a very crude way - by secession, by tearing up parts of its own historical territory. Of course, no one has given any credit to the hundreds of people living there. Thousands of people ask about anything.”

He later accused Stalin, "On the eve of and after the Great Patriotic War, Stalin had incorporated into the Soviet Union some lands formerly belonging to Poland, Romania and Hungary and handed them over to Ukraine. As a compensation, Stalin gave Poland some ancestral German land."

Then he complained about Khrushchev, "In 1954, Khrushchev took Crimea from Russia for some reason and gave it to Ukraine."

Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev during a press conference in Germany in 2004.

(AP)

Putin also bluntly pointed out in his speech, "After the revolution, the main task of the Bolsheviks is to retain power, that is, at any cost. For this, they will spare no expense: in the Kaiser's Germany and its allies in the most difficult military and economic situation Under the circumstances, the outcome of the First World War is actually doomed, in order to satisfy any demands and any wishes of domestic nationalists, they will not hesitate to sacrifice the humiliating conditions of the Brest Treaty." It's a "depraved".

In addition to the above harsh criticism, he further accused Lenin, "From the point of view of the historical destiny of Russia and its people, the Leninist state-founding principle is not only a mistake, as they say, it is worse than a mistake." "The Bolsheviks' Policies led to the emergence of Soviet Ukraine, which, even today, can legitimately be called 'Vladimir-Lenin Ukraine'. He was its author and architect.”

Then, Putin made a comprehensive attack on the ideology and system of the CPSU, including four whole paragraphs of text, many of which are simply outrageous from the perspective of traditional communists. The totalitarian system and ideology of the former Soviet Union, and the deep spiritual disgust for the leaders of the CPSU such as Lenin, Stalin, and Khrushchev.

A sculpture of Lenin stands in the center of Pyramiden, an abandoned former Soviet miners' village in Svalbard, Norway.

(Visual China)

After reading Putin's speech, we can see that although the powerful figures from Lenin to Stalin to Khrushchev in the process of building and strengthening the Soviet state have been scolded over and over again, there are two people who should be scolded more in the eyes of many Chinese people. Characters, one is the Tsar who was overthrown by the Soviet Communist Party, and the other is Gorbachev who led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union, but they were spared exceptions.

Putin does not scold the tsar, which is easier to understand.

Because from the perspective of historical inheritance, Putin is a modern version of the Russian tsar. Many of his practices in national governance and foreign policy, especially military policy, have the shadow of the Russian tsar in history.

Under Putin's stern face and suit, there lives the soul of a tsar. This is the consensus of all observers, and Putin doesn't mind it.

Why not scold Gorbachev, and at the height of the war, he specially offered his birthday wishes to Gorbachev?

Didn't Putin say that the disintegration of the Soviet Union was a tragedy, didn't he claim to ask the Russian people to give him twenty years to build a strong Russia?

The once powerful Soviet Union is a good example, but Gorbachev destroyed the Soviet Union because of his incompetence and cowardice. Why didn't he scold Gorbachev instead?

This answer is hidden in Putin's complex complex with the Soviet Union.

On the one hand, Putin really misses the strength of the Soviet Union. He said that the disintegration of the Soviet Union was a disaster. Of course, he hopes that Russia can be as strong as the former Soviet Union.

But on the other hand, from his speech on February 21, it can be seen that he has made too many responsibilities and sacrifices for the totalitarian system and ideology of the former Soviet Union, and for Russia's excessive responsibilities and sacrifices for the construction of the Soviet Union during the Soviet period. With strong disgust and hatred.

And it was during the reign of Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev and other powerful Soviet leaders, in order to meet the needs of the construction of the Soviet Union and to enhance the national identity of the other republics with the Soviet Union, the authorities of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union were in the process of statist and collectivist values. , at the expense of the most interests of Russia, the republic.

Although Putin grew up under the red flag of the former Soviet Union and served as the first deputy mayor of St. Petersburg at the end of the Soviet Union, he is also a senior official in the Soviet era, but he is a nationalist after all, not a communist.

Therefore, a large number of Russian elites such as Putin and Yeltsin were extremely dissatisfied with the sacrifices that Russia had undertaken during the Soviet period. It was just that under the totalitarian political pressure at that time, no one dared to express this emotion, but it would grow like wild grass in people's hearts. , it will swell as soon as institutional and ideological control is loosened.

Gorbachev provided such an opportunity. Although the failure of Gorbachev's reforms led to the destruction of the Soviet Union, this destruction gave Russia an opportunity to become independent from the Soviet yoke and regain Russia's interests that were cut off in the Soviet era.

To a certain extent, it can be said that Gorbachev gave Yeltsin and Putin the opportunity to realize the dream of nationalism.

Therefore, although Gorbachev is the historical sinner who brought down the Soviet Union with one hand, he is widely regarded as the traitor of communism in the eyes of some people in China and Russia who are still obsessed with the Soviet Union, but in the eyes of Yeltsin, Putin and other Russian elites In his eyes, he had a completely different perception.

Gorbachev: An incompetent loser whom the Chinese should be grateful for. Gorbachev died. Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs: He contributed to the normalization of Sino-Soviet relations The death of Gorbachev cannot be shied away from the responsibility for the disintegration of the Soviet Union│A figure who cannot bear all the responsibility for the disintegration of the Soviet Union

Source: hk1

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