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Mikhail S. Gorbachev, former President of the USSR

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Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Nobel Peace Price (1990). "I do not regard the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize as an award to me personally, but as a recognition of what we call perestroika and innovative political thinking, which is of vital significance for human destinies all over the world." "The Nobel Peace Prize for 1990 confirms that perestroika and innovative political thinking no longer belong only to us, the people of the Soviet Union. They are the property of the whole of mankind and are an inseparable part of its destiny and of a safe, peaceful future. We are deeply grateful to Norway and other members of the international community who have shown such understanding and who, through their conduct in international issues and in their relations with the Soviet Union, have shown their solidarity as we proceed with our perestroika and their sympathy as we struggle to resolve our problems. If we all took this as our point of departure, mankind would have no cause to regret the loss of a unique opportunity for reason and the logic of peace to prevail over that of war and alienation." http://www.gorby.ru/en/

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: June 4, 2007 at 8:17 pm
Author: swedanica

Length: 05:10
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Tags: Glasnost  Leadership  Peace  Perestroika  Solidarity  USSR  

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DarthKrattus (July 20, 2008 at 4:20 pm)
I agree. Trotsky would have been a better ruler, a better man.
morfo1010 (July 20, 2008 at 7:55 am)
Sad that the revolution torch was taken by Stalin and non Trotzky, Stalin was the worst ruler ever
sosiskisranije (July 16, 2008 at 7:14 pm)
Mikhail Sergeivich, poshel ti na huy! Mudak, lizal zadnicu Amerike, i obokral 4estnih grrazhdan 4tobi nazhraca nacionalnim rezervom. Idi obratno na Stavropol, vodi traktor, mudila, tam tebe i mesto.
swedanica (July 3, 2008 at 11:20 pm)
Yes, Gorbachev gave people the tools and Putin has since reclaimed them all.
tomreves29 (June 30, 2008 at 10:58 am)
gorbachev is the one who ended the cold war, and brought liberty to Soviet Union, and actually to Europe. He started reforms that let the people seek independence.
650ballinwhiteboy (June 27, 2008 at 5:28 am)
Gorbachev was a money hungry capitalist that screwed and entire nation and led millions into poverty. Then the stupid americans gave him a "Peace Prize" to make him feel better. But now Gorbachev in his old age knowing he will die soon, REGRETS his capitalist ways and prays to god to help Russia and all other subjests of the former Soviet Union
DarthKrattus (June 26, 2008 at 7:38 am)
You're right that only Lenin was a true Communist hero, and everyone else was totalitarian, but Gorbachev was a capitalist. Have you read about his policies? He allowed a near-full free market and corporations, which caused all of the problems which, under Lenin's regime, one would never have seen.
CruxisXIII (June 25, 2008 at 6:07 am)
Gorbachev was a Leninist and that was the problem. Lenin was the only true communist leader in all of world history, after he died the Soviet Union lost it's grounds. It became a nation with no grounds that was controlled by Totalitarianism. After Stalin, the USSR was completely controlled through its government; everything controlled. Lenin did NOT believe in that, and when a leader who came into power implemented Leninism back into the USSR, the whole thing just collapsed. RIP Lenin, good man.
DarthKrattus (June 24, 2008 at 3:41 pm)
This guy received the Nobel Peace Prize? That disgusts me. He single-handedly ruined a nation. Poverty rose from 1% to over 40%. Inequality rose, and for the first time, people experienced homelessness, unemployment, crime, and drug abuse. Say what you want about the USSR, but the fact remains that it was stable until this joke of a leader showed up.
merandi12 (June 22, 2008 at 6:34 pm)
Советский Союз, падение империи. Это будет возвращаться?

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