Interview: Gorbachev On Putin 

And then the west gave russia putin.

@@NathanCroucher cia runs the world

@@mt_gox really, not the jews 🙄

he's still alive btw

By destroying his country right? Lol.

Gorbachev saved the world from nuclear war. He did more to world peace than all the other Russian leaders combined.

If only Mr. Gorbachev was still in power!! The world would be a much safer place!!!

@@mimiduquette8786 Absolutely.. Putin is a danger to humanity.. Yeltsin was a drunk.. A complete disaster.

Or if he at least could have stayed in power for little longer and transform soviet union to more democratic direction without getting in to chaos that Russia ended up in 90's with Jeltsin.

Βρε το προδότη γυρίζει από εδώ και από εκεί για να δικαιολογήσει την προδοσια του την ανατροπη της ΕΣΣΔ προδότη θα έχεις την στάμπα της προδοσίας στο σώμα σου και δεν φεύγει με τίποτα γιατί είναι ποτισμένη με το αίμα των κομμουνιστών

Putin's not stupid.

He is no threat to Putin. He doesn't want power, nor does he openly speak against him.

If you have money, you will never live in ruZZia, it is complete 💩💩💩

You mean the most naive and subservient US puppet who gave America all access to Russia,and weakened Russia

SOS from Russia: Goodwill people! Joe Biden betrayed Ukraine for he refuses to close the sky. Every day brings new victims. FORCE NATO to CLOSE the SKY OVER UKRAINE. This is the only way to stop Putin. Otherwise, you will be the next victim of his aggression! Putin is a WORLDWIDE CRIMINAL but don't be afraid of a nuclear strike from his side - he cannot do it alone, and the top militaries around him have families and want to live. It's just a threat on his part. He uses your fear to prevent military aid to Ukraine. BY NOT CLOSING the SKY OVER Ukraine NATO becomes an ACCOMPLICE of Putin's CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

Этот уравновешенный парень со своей уравновешенностью стал виновником распада сверхдержавы,что привело к большим потрясениям, бедствиям и трагедиям!

what about kruschev

@@KLLAVI_The_Skaven He was before my time.😉

What do you not agree with

What about putin

@@kimuei Putin is a disgusting human being, he can rot in hell.

This guy BETRAYED his nation and 20 more nations who were supporting his nation.

By selling them into the hands of vulture capitalists who looted the country and plunged them into economic doom. Ya what a national servant of the people.

@@goshu7009 Betrayed his nation and 20 more nations? How?

@@zapador You see, During Soviet Times - Eastern Europe was united and that didnt happen for centuries :P This guy dismantles the Union - therefore people hate him.

@@goshu7009 Eastern Europe was United? Did you ever stopped to wonder if those countries wanted to be united under USSR? If it's made by force that doesn't mean union. We hated being a part of USSR!

well it did work at some certain but the oligarchs took advantage of that.... this is where Putin rises to power.

Yet he is despised by most Russians today. I saw him as the true hero who ended the Cold War, even though Americans think they won it.

@@markdouglas8073 Then most Americans are idiots. The Soviet Union collapsed because of its own dead weight and a 10 year misadventure in Afghanistan, among other things, the most basic of which is Communism is a death sentence for any economic growth.

He did

@@nmgscp glad to hear it.

I am sure he did but if he did he got it for being the sucker to James Baker back in the 90s . Gorbachev was lied too but was to late to do anything. And Ielțin for being a drunk and the world laughing at him . 2 Suckers

To most Russians he was a sellout

@@galleon1968 Says who?

i think mr gorbachev did all that damage

It was used in casting couch videos for years.

We need this man back in power putin has completely destroyed ukraine and is arresting any protesting and not taking any responsibility I say overthrow putin leave ukrain independent and restor what's left of the ussr

Yes because of him Russia lost all his URSS member countries lol

@@labigashi8327 Every country who wants independence doesn't belong to anyone.

@@labigashi8327 They wanted to leave. Nothing to do with Gorbie

@@labigashi8327 Empires fall apart. Parts want to go in different directions.

Submitted to the West.

Submission to the West (which can be doubtful) or a straight up USSR civil war? What would you choose if you were him?

Unfortunately he didn't understand his own party apparatus. They partitioned the country to get him out of power.

by which you mean he allowed the West to bully him...it was precisely his blind trust of his U.S. counterparts that Russia is threatened by NATO today. He didn't get anything down in writing...just trusted their words..that they won't move one inch eastwards.

@@n661 I think he wanted long term peace and cooperation with the west….

Ты-то откуда знаешь, что было неизбежным? Он разрушил армию, экономику. А народ впал в беспробудную бедность. Зато США были этому очень и очень рады.

'America acted recklessly"?.. Seems I remember the early to mid 90s, America was Always Helping (💰💵💰💵💰) Russia ' Survive' the upcoming 'Winter'..

Gorbachev was a tool of the US, who placed him to do to Russia, what they have done or tried to do to every other country. Russia is lucky that they have Putin rather then naive Gorbachev or the drunkard Yeltsin.

@@bonanzatime knowing life in Russia during 90s. Maybe someone was helping us to die.

@@MetalRex101 America 'saved' Russia in WWII, AND America has given Russia billions and billions of dollars since the end of Soviet Union. It's not America's fault that Russian leaders are so corrupt they kill their own people. They've been doing that forever.

@@bonanzatime it was russia that saved your arse in WW2 not your pathetic army that lost vietnam, korea and afghanistan

"Pride comes before a fall, but humility comes before honour." From somewhere in the Bible, Proverbs, I think.

Animals don’t do evil things-only human do that.

@@annebalderston2520 Fair point.

@@annebalderston2520 Not completely true. Chimps, closest relatives of humans have been proven to have sadistic tendencies and desire for revenge too.

Don't dare compare Putin to animals who are peaceful creatures. They kill for food only.

He actually won 1990 Nobel Peace Prize

He is just one man.

He is nobody in Mother Russia than just a West puppet

@@israeloluwadamilola6055 mother Russia is a murderous country. With an assassin as its leader. What count it is that worldwide Gorbachev made history.

Ma sei scemo o mangi i sassi? Gorbachev è responsabile per la miseria in cui ha gettato la popolazione russa con le sue privatizzazioni forzate e portate avanti a oltranza, è stato celebrato in questo modo giusto perché è stato un ottimo pupazzo dell'occidente.

BS just a traitor

@@Joker-lt7pf pathetic comment

If you look at history. The rise of Russia is hated by the West. In case of Gorbachev, if the West love him, then there is problem there.

@@hoanglongchau120 you got to much history

@@sandro1017 Just point to the fact, bro. There are reasons for West's hate against Russia.

@@hoanglongchau120 Name them, friend. Other than Stalin and the millions of Russians he had executed...

@@c.a.savage5689 Do you think the Poles love Catherine the Great? or what did the West think about Aleksander II?

Totally agree 👍

Yeltsin wasn't bad at all. The only 9 years in the whole history of Russia that were democratic. Because the media was free while he was in power he is remembered as an alcoholic

But remembered by the people that do not know what he has done to Russia

And C And M And A and N and B

@Commander Cody No one is saint

@Commander Cody what the fuck is wrong with you

@@CrafterSven he didn’t stutter, putin is a dictator

@@CrafterSven he is right

Despite how much bad they're Iran literally didn't want to be some puppy state much like Ukraine so how they're the bad guy?

yup he could have plunged the world into ww3 but choose peace instead and not cling on to power/ego

Lithuania drove him out of their country without firing a single shot.

@@olympia5758 russia must cooperate with the west its the only way to have peace

@@olympia5758 you can’t only blame the west. The Soviet Union was collapsing within dude. It was inevitable.

@@eltoro10-v5t … only when he was sober 😂👍

The cia rigged the election for this embarrassing clown

@@manifest_bot3162 Leave the poor dude alone and stfu

Yeah he let Russians eat Pizza Hut

You do not run the Russian mafia with free speech reforms.

There was no promise, Gorbachev did admit it

U are deluded.

It is easy to be an amateur arm chair president is it not ?

A fool, is a better word to describe this delusional person. No wonder he ruined a great union.

While I understand your point, I think this can turn against people in the future. Not all leaders will be as smart as Putin, and power can easily rot a leader soul, specially in autocratic systems where there are no counter balances.

He saved us from the Soviet Union. God save President Gorbachev

Handing your country over is when trying to stop the stagnating Economy and try to modernise society,give People more Freedom, modernise the economy and focus on civilian technology because we laged behind the west just for it to be all disturbed by old conservative hardliners communist who tried to overthrow gorbachev and then yeltsin came and put the final nail in the coffin. Yep gorbachev is definitly a traitor and didnt try to save help our country🙄.....

When you enjoy the fruits of freedom. And then complain about the person who fought for it. Nick, you should share a train cabin with Stalin. Train to Siberia perhaps.

@@BengalLancer when you say "freedom" so much yet dont know what it means. I dont know what planet you live on, but there aint much freedom on this one. welcome to Earth

@@Christian-ni5fl yeah he modernized it so much that life expectancy plummeted, unemployment exploded, protections for women and workers were decimated, quality of life disappeared, and ethnic and nationalistic conflicts rose. But you have "freedom" and capitalism now. A true paradise

How about Nelson Mandela of South Africa!?

Fuad Huseynov :Gorby didn't achieve 1% what Putin is doing for his country. He should zip his mouth and be forgotten forever.

At least he gave the soviet people some god damn freedom

@@smainebelhadi1193 Gorbachev is a great person, he saved the world by preventing a soviet civil war and ended the cold war

He didn't destroy USSR you know. A LOT of other people did. His only flaw was that he was not brutal as Stalin and allowed his people various rights which ultimately was misused.

@サイレントボイス he defintly was a good president and prevented civil war. Bit he didnt do ahit about chernobly it was legasov and he hided lies qnd never told truth about chernobly and a lot of other things.

Sedonascape Gorbachev is a stain to this media agency, and I think they too should follow Congress directives and register as a foreign agent. I oppose oppression on both sides, the US should stop interfering in sovereign nations domestic affairs. As with Gorbachev he should retire and sober up and seek forgiveness from the Russian people. Drunken decisions are not wise for his interest, no one is asking him to compensate, rehabilitate, and redress for being drunk and disorder in public office. Reflecting on the luxurious past without taking into account future real progress is a pipe dream. Russia is no longer dependent on the drunk opinions and political analysis by the pensioner Gorbachev.

No, that was the dancing drunk, Yeltsin.

I must say you are wrong. First of all Gorbachev came in at a awful time in the Soviet Union where economic stagnation and Little to no faith in the government. He was elected by the Politburo to reform the system to maintain stability here he gave out his views communism with democracy were he said “We need democracy like the air we breathe “ he also put out a campaign against corruption in the party and unlike his predecessors he talked to the people in public about politics. He would also pull out of Afghanistan for it ruining the state run economy( we can talk about Afghanistan latter ) ,he released political prisoners and apologized for the former administrations action , and he would end the arms race which was also crippling the economy. Now the problem with Gorbachev is this “Democracy and Socialism” don’t mix well and he would free the grip the Soviet Union had on the satellite states. After loosing the grip protesters arrived in Poland protesting the socialist system but the Soviet tanks did not run in in reaction to this revolutions would brake out in all of Eastern Europe and would end up uniting east Germany and west Germany but this caused much controversy from party hard liners and veterans. After the 1989 revolutions a few republics in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union) in reaction Gorbachev would push more reforms even establishing the office of president and winning the free election though many opposition leaders such as Russian president Yeltzin thought that the reforms were not enough and to slow with this Gorbachev would align more with party hard liners also known as Stalinist though they also disliked Gorbachev this would lead to a coup made by the party hard liners claiming that Gorbachev is mentally ill and that they established marshal law to revert the reforms but Yeltzin in the Soviet congress known as supreme soviet lead a resistance movement which ended in the coup failing Gorbachev was restored to office but realized that at that point Yeltzin was the one calling the shots and he latter on debated Yeltzin arguing he won’t stand for the communist party to be a criminal organization though was ignored and Yeltzin banned the communist party. Gorbachev would latter on announce his resignation and the dissolution to the Soviet Union.

Mind ur language

Sold Russia? Are you really that blind? USSR was a totalitarian state that killed mostly RUSSIANS. Are milions of deaths the cost of making Russia an empire?

That is not the case. When he took over the Soviet economy was completely exhausted. Politically there were a lot of problems, corruption, discordination and inefficiency. He tried to liberalize the socialist disaster and autonomize power. Obviously it didn't work, socialism is a failed system in itself. And the power of was concentrated in very few hands, that not even dead were going to leave. It was a system that had to fall. Gorbachev's virtue was to avoid nuclear war while that was happening. Which is no small thing.

yeltsin was the beginning cause by turning the economy into a more capability way with lifting price controls and nationwide privatilization and other economic reforms caused alot of problems for everyone

Washington was the founder of USA, Gorby was the killer of USSR

Lenin was the George Washington of the Soviet Union, and we haven't seen the Gorbachev of the United States yet, but I understand what you mean: like Washington, Gorbachev was a strong moral character; modest, wise and good.

@@bolerobolero5668 This is what I wanted to say:-)

@@bolerobolero5668 The USSR was horrible.

@@yeah1326 so what?

@Aditya Chakrabarti if the ussr still existed it would have put China in its place

The BBC already interviewed him, watch on youtube don't worry if you're not from uk

@@indoroyale7848 Read up on history fam the USSR was falling appart. This man was a hero for tempting to liberalize a country which storically was always authoritarian.

@@amanwearingsuspenders7390 read. My comment again and notice the word "if"

@@indoroyale7848 I though you were blaming him for the liquidation of the USSR, many people blame him and consider him a traitor for doing something very brave. If that was not the case I am sorry and I hope you have a good day :)

Agreed. Many of us here in the US know the difference between a government’s actions and the people’s desire. We see the anti-war protests in Russia. The West has it's share of problems but I hope the world can stand against this war before it escalates like WWI or WWII. No one really wants war.

Only leader Russians have chosen was Yeltsin and that did not last long.

On 9/11/1989 the worlds changes then 9/11/2001 the world reforms

why do they love so much the 9-11?whats wrong with this day?is it a cult?

@@MyMikey88 Don't forget the Chilean coup. 9-11-73.

After the death of Stalin,revisionists began to take over the management.Everything started falling apart and getting worse but still ın 70’s and in the beginning of 80’s Ussr was better off compared to other countries.When it comes to 80’s capitalists already took over the communist party and traitors like gorbachev yakovlev and yeltsin showed up and ruined everyting with their liberal policies.

You're a complete fool man. Go read his biography before making such assumptions. Without knowing history and how this incompetent pidoras came into power.

Sami balshoi vrag ruskava naroda. Pradal vsoo.

@@denizaksoy2475 So you wanna live in an oppressive and poor country? Gorbachev fixed russia

@@denizaksoy2475 Hahaha. Off to the gulag with you.

He killed (by his direct orders) 13 peacefull protesters and injured many more in my country when it wanted its independance from Soviet union, in my eyes his hands are covered with blood, only maybe the west thinks he is great, all eastern europe hates him

@@Edis97 Is Gorbachev worse than Putin?

@@farzana6676 No Putin in my opinion is worse, and i held this opinion way before ukraine war, and what do you think?

@@Edis97 I don't know much about Gorbachev. He was before my time.

I was told that after ww2, U.S gave France something like 1billion dollar's as a loan, France asked for 1 billion dollar's worth of gold not currency, U.S got serverly pissed at this. and offered them only currency.

But all people also have their weaknesses. His was to be naive in his dealings with the west, his failure to slow down perestroika and failure to stand up to the bully Yeltsin 12 Billion dollars paid by Germany for the reuniting of east and west Germany also mysteriously went missing as soon as it was handed over to the Russians. Does Gorbachev ever explain how that happened and where the money is now. ?

hi Live in Germany .''.true patriot''...left whole country to face concessive of his art work,..

@Maester Keeth it was his fault he was naive to think that the West wont expand NATO to the East and he was dumb enough to actually believe that the West would keep their promise

@Maester Keeth Gorbachev is seen as the biggest traitor among the russian people but to you it doesn't seem that way because maybe you have been brainwashed by western maybe but that's true he was naive to think that the West actually wanted to cooperate with Russia but he was dead wrong they just wanted to weaken the Soviet Union so they can spread "democracy" around the world by stealing oil from other countries and killing their leaders that don't bend to them like in Libya and Iraq for example , so i suggest to you to spend a bit more time learning not me because I know that it's hard to see the picture when you're inside the frame

LMAO great? GREAT? Hahahahhahahahah, that is a funny joke.

What is great about USSR

Be grateful to who made Russia become as livable as today.

Putin proves that is not the case.

I`d rather have the Soviet Union intact over the current Russia we see know. Gorbachev was naive, but he gave Russians freedom. Then Yeltsin came to power, and enabled Putin. Yeltsin was a corrupt drunk, and Putin is a dangerous Psychopath. I think Gorbachev was a very decent man, and one of the few Russian leaders who believed in freedom. I`d take Gorbachev over ANY other Russian leader. He is a very good man.

@@yellyman5483 true. Had he been younger, he should definitely lead the country AGAIN. It's a shame for such wise man to be overthrown

@@thuylinhnguyenly4945 Gorbachev was a fantastic man.

@@yellyman5483 Soviet Union intact vrs Russia. Don't say that in Poland, Cz, Sk or any of the old parts of the Warsaw Pact. You'd be beaten to to a pulp for your stupidity

Now economy is fucked up because you can't just sell oil and gas for eternity and move money into off shores while not establishing own means of production and conflicting with those you actually been selling oil and gas first place

He is still a dumbass an occidental puppet...i think they paid him to be such an asshole he sold the ussr and he is one of the people who caused the post ussr chaos and high poverty and crime rate.

@@redark3093 that is Yeltsin's doing. This is Gorbachev.

Grab a brain

Oh yes, because he led a totalitarian state to fall? Ever heard of milions of people killed by the Soviets?

@@mikoajrokicki3459 the USSR should have remained in power with a democratic government

And you a disrespectful jerk

Ramin Dakhuda Because of him you can use youtube and internet.