The former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev full interview - BBC News 

@@insidequest8574 why should he be killed? He brought democracy to the USSR in it Dieing days. He refused to use violence to preserve the Union and he peaceful gave up power. That sounds like quit a good leader to me. And dont say its because he is a Communist, not all Communist are bad I should know my brother is one and you no what? He loves Democracy more than anyone else I now. He is willing to die for democracy, I don't think that many these days would he willing to do that. Especially if they must fight there own government.

@@lordkenten4136 what if he should be killed for introducing democracy and leaving what they had? Do not assume things, that everyone loves democracy and that that is the only good. I have no opinion on Gorbachov myself, I find him a very interesting man. But people have entirely different views on life, philosophy and politics. It would be naive to immediately assume a "good" vs "bad" posture and talk about democracy in that way.

@@nazi0zombie Democracy is the one thing I will not compromise on. If someone doesn't believe in democracy then I have no time for them.

@@lordkenten4136 Why is that?

@@nazi0zombie Because Democracy is more than just a political system to me. It is a way of thinking and a way of living. I believe that the point of life is to enjoy it while you can. So democracy is the best form of government to do that. I also believe that all power should come from the people so I believe the system that gives the most power to the people is the one that I will support. In my opinion people who live in less democrtic countries are less happy and less productive over all. So in conclusion democracy is less of a ideology to me but more like a Religion real. The one absolute institution of all government you could say.

Most if not all Slavic people can hear it

@@monarch9522 really didn't expect you here

потому что он безграмотный

he looks like he has a bit of dementia. CC subtitles do not reveal that. but you can hear it if you are Russian. so yeah, he looks like a grandpa that just talking in order to feel himself alive. not a good stuff actually. shame on you, BBC.

@@dinok7630 not everyone. In my opinion, russian is more diverse that eng. So only russians speakers can hear it. Not even manner of speech but something else like... speech diversity may be

If your name ends with "in", time to get out

"I have the balls to let Baryshnikov dance playa"

“Kicked down that was like the Kool-aid man, oh yeah!”

Did somebody say ‘birthmarx”?

You both need yoga and you need a shower

The poor USSR president since 1985 until 1991.

@@PffingAlexeyPetrov REST IN SHIT GORBACHEV

@Russian Occupant 🤓

@Russian Occupant you can rot in hell dipshit he ended the iron curtain in europe which had caused Years of tyranny and suffering. My dad visited East Berlin before the wall came down and he said it was a miserable place. Empty shops, Stazi watching people just horrible.

@Russian Occupant Amen!

It doesn't work in the real world unfortunately. You have a choice between bad and very bad. Sometimes you should take a gun in your arms to protect your interests. Sad but true.

@@rabiddios thats a bad excuse

@@somedudetm2743 yeah, u are right. Bad. But it isn't wrong. Sad but true. U should kill to be alive. It is a cruel world around. And everybody is part of. If you won't a war to be, you should lose smth in your life. Sad, doesn't that?

I think that the Russians really feared that all of those provocations from both sides would turn the cold war hot

@@joseffliegl4167 nobody wants a war. But everybody knows that it will be. If you want peace prepare for war.

@@fabribeijing Naw, in this case the USSR. All other Soviet leaders were born in the Russian Empire.

Lol

Ronnie Jones what does the bolsheviks being “Judaic” have anything to do with the price of fish. And I’m very certain banks wouldn’t fund communism.

fabribeijing no the others were born during the rule of the Russian empire, he was born under the USSR

Ronnie Jones .

He is in awe of the person who is in front of him. We also do that in my family sometimes while somebody we respect and admire is talking, not because we find their words funny or amusing 🙂

@@hailun374 it was a sincere english pleasant smile

@@borislopez6959 I did the same remark.

you did my day lol))) it's more funny, when you understand russian)

lmao

He gave "freedom", but took the bread... OK, I can go to Red Square and criticize the government, but what will it give me when my salary is 10 times less and I have nothing to eat?...

The Socialist Republic of Transnistria is another relic of the USSR that still exists if you are interested. And no im not trying to correct you.

@@Anonymous-qj3sf what bread lmao Soviet wages were always shite

@@expertbrody9914 I'm not talking about the Stalinist USSR, but about the USSR of the 1950s-1980s. At this time, Soviet people lived well, with many social guarantees. Free education, medicine, apartments. There was no hunger and lack of food. There are no homeless and unemployed... We lost all this in the late 1980s. In the 90s there was widespread corruption, crime, poverty, unemployment, people literally ate newspapers to survive. Now go to bed, and before going to bed, watch a documentary about "10,000,000 victims of Stalin's Gulag", Western child 😂

Literally just came back here to comment the same thing 🙏🏼🕊

Looks pretty good for 88-year old.

Doesn’t look anything like the Gorbachev I learned about.

@@Ashfielder he was the lender when the Chernobyl disaster happen

lee cokeley Amongst other arguably more important things, yes. He’s just aged a lot.

He's a traitor to the USSR

Not only that, he was the one most responsible for dissambling the Soviet Union. A name associated with, if not relegated to, history classes & books. Yet, he still walks among us like no other. It makes you think, that we as humans like to view important historic people as larger than life but they are most likely just like gorbachev, a normal person in an abnormal situation .

​@@slavenskazajednica7912 i'm guessing you were never alive under the USSR? or witnessed your family torn apart by stalin?

To many russian he is a traitor, communism wasn't working any more, He just let the system fall apart and let their countries to manage themselves with more freedom.

@@slavenskazajednica7912 Oh pls, spare us the bullshit.

SC98 oh, but he certainly did very little to stop them.

Lol she will outlive him

Briliant

What about Jimmy carter he is 2years older than the queen

Hmmm..

@@joydip9044 oh shit really 🤯????

He should be credited for dissolving a criminal system. But he had no choice. Reagan, Thatcher and reality overpowered him.

@@ericfernandez9 You underestimate the choice Soviet Union, even a husk of its former self, can make. It doesn't have to benefit its people, or even humanity, but leader such as Stalin will turn to one final war instead, one to take over enough economic resource to extend survival of the Union.

@@Verpal Their military was already ruined. They couldn't conquer Afghanistan or hold on to Eastern Europe any longer.

@@bigverybadtom I didn't say they will win lol, but Soviet Union at the time still have the organizational strength to do one final mass mobilization before going kaput, and many Soviet diehard might opt for that dangerous bet instead, due to their belief in Communism itself over people of Soviet Union.

@@Verpal They certainly have their spy network-we captured a number of spies for the Soviets after the Cold War.

@@egorzale7573 So the man who ensured that the USSR didin't splinter into a million bloody pieces and plummet eastern europe into decades of war and senseless violence, not to mention the last leader of the arguably largest country of the 20th century, is not noteworthy enough to be in a history book? Ok then.

@@egorzale7573 answer me this: What did you think would have happened If Gorbachev decided to extend the Soviet Union into a techno-informational age the country was NOT prepared for? What would have happened if he had decided to keep eastern berlin a soviet satelite state by brute force, having to silence any further descent from the balcanic countries that were as allways a powder keg waiting for a spark? Could the USSR have hold on for a couple more decades? Maybe. Would It do anything other than slowly self-implode into irrelevance? Hell no If you need an example of this, take a closer look at Post-maoist China

@@colbyallman it was pepsi not coca cola screw coca cola it is bad pepsi is good

Egor Zaleskis I'm sorry, im not really informed well in this caption, but i can tell you alot about nazis. Well but this sounds not very nice to me! I'm sorry bro!

@@egorzale7573 typical polish who's offended by Russia

At which minute?

Magda Draganova 0:00

@@ACasualPerson Thank you.

Savinder Singh BAINS comrade*

@@ACasualPerson if it was stalin then imagine

Empire

Your mom is a cheap and shallow response.

@Scott Spencer Woosh....

I used to rule the entire siberia and eastern europe

Scott Spencer do you know that jokes exist.

Убил миллионы, он погубил миллионы жизней. Больше чем Гитлер. Гореть ему в аду.

saved? In the recent history of Russia there are only two demographic holes - WW2 and Collapse of USSR. Thanks to this man during the 90’s Russian people suffered so much, that losses can be compared with losses in WW2. And there are still much terrible things happening due to this man, for example - conflict in Ukraine. There is no wondering why tons of people in Russia call him a traitor - because they all have suffered much, and still they are suffering

It's unfortunate that President Clinton was not receptive to the request of Vladimir Putin to join NATO. Russia renounced communism and encouraged Orthodox Christianity. Makes you wonder that if we had granted his request that Russia (by then a part of the European Union), would have stayed out of Crimea and Ukraine. Blessed are the peace makers. It's still not too late. Give peace a chance.

@@PaulOfPeace54 leads you to the conclusion that one and only goal for NATO is to oppose Russia

@@danilaagapitov1627 Well we can't have peace. What would happen to the military industrial complex and the 'relations' they have with their minions in business and government. American jobs and working infrastructure would give the proletariate the idea that they were actually in charge.

@Nate Higgers Ok. Nice name. Very relevant to what's happening today.

I _love_ that commercial! The young guy and the older guy are having a big "Gorbachev Rocks! vs Gorbachev Sucks!" argument, and the old lady just jumps in and shuts them both down by stating the fact that, without Gorbachev, there wouldn't be a Pizza Hut in Moscow for them to sit in, eat pizza and argue about whether Gorbachev rocked or sucked. So I guess that the old lady proved the young guy right. But I still say that _she_ was the one who won the argument. :-D

Thats bullshit many communist countries like laos , vietnam and cuba adopted the chinese free market system eventually ussr would too ... She won a scripted argument but not a real one

​@@syntheticdawn4992 Well, when Laos, Vietnam and Cuba come out with _their own_ Pizza Hut commercials, we can comment on _those_ commercials and how close to reality they skirt. But for now, Russia stands alone on the ex-Communist Pizza Hut heap. Long may the Russian Hut reign!

Fuck the P-hut there is really something wrong to honor an arch traitor who bent the knee to the ruling cabal

Hahahaha great story

Safak Sahin When I was a kid I used to think a lizard had spat on his head or perhaps an adult pisstaker from my family might have told me that but I swear that was what I thought whenever he appeared on tv.

Faleiar, or whatever you call it

Some other Turkish kids like Şafak and me used to think that UN trucks with huge white U and N letters upon them were carrying flour. Un is flour in Turkish.

@@muverrih-imaderzad3478 When finally Gorbachev's perestroika succided in Bulgaria in 89 my father had a nervous break down, that I remember as it was yesterday.

Rdr2 hosea

@@خالدسلوم-ت9خ “hello fellers!”

I wanna here his side of Chernobyl.

@@samuraispike4615 me too

@@samuraispike4615 watch the hbo series then

Such admiration can fly across vast distances.

And he was devastated at what is happening I. Ukraine

Your dad did t know much!

Gorbachev was inspired by PM Nehru....he was actually present when PM Nehru visited his university!

The ussr made us cry but not Gorbachev

To your credit, there are worse things to watch.

lol same

Well i watched this before i had a test about the cold war so it helped a little

Same I’m supposed to be writing an essay RN 😂😂

Same.

Yes

it is only fitting that he be the one to end it.

Heh, that is a pretty fun fact.

@@VSSFantastic i am from RF, and l am born in RF

Yes, young are stupid

Cringe

@@negomires2745 From what Dimension are you that you call this cringe?

Of course. He worked well to please them after all! In some photos of his birthday he even dress the english colonial headdress.

@@negomires2745 You do realize your smoking in a arsenal full of powder kegs when you say that right?

@@uncleflagzz it just feels cringe to me i have some issues and i think too manny thing are cringe even if they arent i have anxiety probably

hey

Ikr imagine all the things he knows

@@Chuked Exactly

True

@Crosby That was Yeltsin. Gorbashew wanted to save the USSR

Disagree

shows the failure of the system

No he wasn’t.

@@AlexandruSorez Actually, he was. He was born in 1931, so he's 89 years old, and the Soviet Union existed for roughly 69 years.

He didnt have to end it tho

@@koffiya9184 *68

mf can kill anyone with a glance.

Exactly but achieved way more than you.

PBottega 77 - *Russian, *Grandpa, and it was thanks to him (and, eventually Ronald Reagan) that nuclear war didn’t happen - learn your history

@Coronavirus What are you talking about? He said that he could have, but didn’t.

@@potatofuryy Yes, but it was because of him the cold war ended.

Agree

What did you edit in this comment? I thought for a minute you legit wrote this a few hours before he died.

Be loved in foreign and past enemies but hated by mort of Russian people who he originally should served, unfortunately. He fail to prove that Russian people can keep wealth, dignity after political reform brings more freedom. Partially made today’s more aggressive Russian. But still hoping him Rest In Peace

@@jimb7050 As a Russian guy said this morning 'he gave us freedom, and we didnt know what to do with it'.

@@fornax5798 only a mispelling :)

90 years old!

@@JlNnKNN_3HAK November 8, 2019, then 88 years old

Well why didn't you put " was then 88 years old"?

Well yeah, but not many understand how it was actually Brezhnevs fault that ussr collapsed. Sure people loved living under his rule but he made collossal mistake by not doing any sorts of reforms.

It never should've collapsed. The world needed a block against American monopoly. Anyway China is rising now.

Ikr with him and also fedelcashtro who died in 2016 I thought he died in like the 1980s

@@carlosvera-ip6qx *Fidel Castro

he removed himself from power ,or soviet union still exists, have you heard about perestroika

地狱害怕解体，所以不接收戈尔巴乔夫🤣

@@_hnghngdv9113 they don´t want him there because he destroid soviet union

He ratted us out, he has all the reason to be scared.

Every Russian is scared of Putin.

Putin is basically Stalin but way less evil.

Have you seen what he does to political dissidents? He's basically diet Stalin.

Putin is a Strong leader but when he is gone there will be a huge vacuum in Russia

RIP Traitor

Shame Putin is ripping the country apart again and would take it back to how it was under Stalin tomorrow if he has the chance.

@@wederMaxim suck balls dude give some damn respect

@@wederMaxim bot

@@firsargentum5920 I don't think the people who call Gorbachev a traitor are necessarily bots. After all, Russians weren't better off after he left office.

What is with the mark on his head?

@@gamewithadam7235 birthmark

Wine spill

@@MikePlaysYeet lmao

@@darkmemes953 I think that's actually what the term for it is actually called lol🤣

His own nation getting collapsed and chaos

Biggest traitor to one's own nation

@@siam9914 wtf boss baby??

@@siam9914 Oh yes of course tried to improve the lives of everyone succeeded but then Yeltsin dissolved the Soviet Union and he took the balme

@@christopherjohnson3464 You’re partially right, a lot of other Russians will say he was a traitor and he collapsed the Union. I think that this wasn’t his intention, but the fact that he doesn’t live in Russia now says quite a bit. He might have had good intentions and actually done something about the ailing country, but glorifying him definitely isn’t right. Edit: I made a mistake in my comment, he lives in a dacha outside moscow nowadays but he left for GB after the fall of the USSR.

No he didnt. He ended the great soviet union while 65% of the population voted for it to be kept.....

And he took orders from the MI6.

@@blackpaint9093 wasn't there a coup though that instigated the federated republics to declare independance in order to avoid the chaos of a possible civil war?

Yeah, thanks to his reforms Russia was a real hell in the 90s. Thanks to him, nationalism began to flourish in the republics, which was quite local under previous rulers. Thanks to him Russia lost 10m people. Thanks to him, the Russian economy has experienced almost the largest regression in history and is now supported by the remnants of the Soviet economy. Not least because of him, Chechnya rose up and this bloody and senseless slaughter began. Thanks to HIS reforms, an oligarchy was established in Russia. Thanks to HIM, appeared many millionaires who robbed the country in the 90s. Yeah, he really listened people.

@@fyodorkojevin5756 You know that the occupied republics aren't and never were Russia. He didn't lost people, he gave what the countries wanted and had until the moment Stalin came in and turned everything to shit. And now Russia is occuping lands yet again. I hope that Russia suffers, but I'm also very sad about the Russian people that don't deserve this. :(

No

Ага. И у него план по развалу СССР был этой... Дымократией

@@verawest7399 yes

@@Hoshihar демократия может и не плохой вариант был для России и остается, но не так как ее преподнес Горбачев, просто развалив все что можно.

@@evgeniyap.2375 может и не лишняя. Но только не для политики.

Lol I just watched that video a few hours ago

Putin cuts off his opposition what do you expect? Shooting them?

Putin top

@@andriod8014 agreed I'm not a fan of this russia.

@@megawave79 watch Navely vid on Putin. Hes living a double life, one portrays him as a leader and the other a pussy.

As a russian i said , our human rights are not respected, and now after the "vote" it has become worse

@@МэкуйанскиЖэларёв Sorry for my English, I dont know how in France with human rights, but I think you have better rights than we have in Russia, I have not thoroughly compared so dont be angry. Putin has been in power for 20 years and if at the beginning many but not everyone thought that this was a fresh breath of air, now it is an authoritarian regime where only people loyal to the government are needed and they simply get rid of unwanted people (they put them in prisons for fabricated cases, reproach for psychiatric hospital, etc.), so that many, like me, hate Putin and his friends. someone said that "while the whole world is developing according to Huxley, Russia is following Orwell."

@KarmaKahn ok, heres a better translation - "Its in constitution, we intended it this way, but sometimes, when Country goes through changes, it could be that none is ready to take on... Putin inherited chaos and he resolved this chaos! Media says, he still needs time, I am for law, but I'm for people's opinion above all" Its very sad, but IMO entire world is like one Orwell novel. Perhaps, Illusion of freedom is even worse than lack of it, for oppression can be seen and measured but if your freedom is nothing but a dream, there might be no escape

Wilhelm der Dritte I hope I may share my point of view with you. Problem of Russia has become complex because Putin made all branches of government listen to him, even if it goes against the law and the Constitution. You might know the “State Duma” what is analog of National Assembly in France. So this Duma is just a circus. They actually make nothing. We call 'em “system opposition” cos they exist to be like a picture on TV. Clever people in Russia know that there is a gang of oligarchs who steal oil. Putin is in there. Russia has enormous number of problems. Unfortunately, with corrupted system becomes impossible to make any changes. It is even worse, than the Soviet Union in 70-80’s because people could live. Somehow, but could. What happens now? People live in those old soviet houses and try to struggle. Russia is flying into the abyss.

Wilhelm der Dritte Gotcha, thank you very much for your polite and pleasant words about Russia. We’ll see in the future what’s gonna be. I believe in the nice future of France too! Greetings from Russia 🇷🇺. Vive la France 🇫🇷 :)

Ni Denghui what if someone assassinate him at dis moment

Michael WIlson then he would be dead

He did, but in which way?

@@dauletshynybaev I would say good. He seems to have cared for what his people wanted, avoided war and peacefully dissolved the Soviet Union. As far as I know.

Unreal Railway 1 peacefully? Read some information from Soviet Union, it says that lots of countries didn’t even want to leave Soviet Union, like Kazakhstan, Belarus, and lots of others (you can check it). People was killed, a lot of peasants didn’t have any money after that, and crime rate went up, one time ruble was more expensive then dollar, but after G.K.CH.P. everything went wrong. Countries was pushed to leave. So maybe he wanted everything to be good, but he couldn’t hold such a big country in his hands, which made it collapse

And let them. I hope that at least it was a small, but still a punishment for him.

What does "heartbreaking" mean? If you love Gorbachev, then you should be happy for him, because before his death he was once again convinced of the success of his policy.

may he rot in hell

Пусть он в гробу вертится, чёрт плешивый!!!

Update, it still hasn’t ended yet

thats when you know he's completely kicked out of all circles of power he can finally tell the truth LOL

He got there in the end. Minus Chernobyl...

Look at interviews most former leaders in power after they're no longer in power. Its pretty similar

Because he has nothing to lose and nothing to protect.

He was ANYTHING BUT up front. Everything he said about Putin (though he was too afraid to even mention him by name--even commenting on the fact that he wasn't mentioning him) was indirect, and even that tiny indirect criticism was followed up with ridiculous excuses for Putin clinging to power: "I hear on the news [state-controlled news!] that the people still want him to stay on...and finish the job." And ONE THING IS CLEAR: He must have ruled out from the beginning answering any questions on Putin's ANNEXATION of CRIMEA!

auther Kather so truee

When you kill one man, you are called a murderer and they hang you. When you kill one million men, you are called a hero and they give you a medal.

And that’s us and Russia

@Britannic hayyomatt Your thought with nukes is right but your example is shit. Chemical weapons especially gas was way too expensive and had a bad use/death ratio. Normal weapons were more cost and kill effective that's the only reason for not using them. Furthermore you could argue that Hitler feared/detested chemical weapons because he experienced them on himself in WW1.

@Britannic hayyomatt Exactly disabling the enemy is the goal. With poison gas you do that to you and the enemy. Back in WW1 there were multible occasions where your own attack was carries back to your trenches by the wind or the gas accumulated in the area for 1-2 days. Furthermore gas has a shelf life like everything else. You can't store it infinitely therefore it has to be replaced regularly aswell as stored in a special way. (shelf life: weeks in normal canisters and temperature and months in very cold conditions). All in all it's a way more costly endeavour. To cripple men shells are therfore more price efficient than poison gas. And yes they were concerned that the allies would use chemical weapons as retaliation but the production overall just doubled in consequence because again they knew that it is way to expensive. Moreover till the end of the war in 1945 45 million people's gas masks were produced (almost the same amount as the population of Britannia)

Ikr? It's amazing

It will be interesting to chat about politics with him

Good

RIP

Gorbachev was born in 1931* but yes, RIP Premier Gorbachev

Reforms from which the countries of the former USSR suffered more than during the WW2.

R.I.P

#Tyme_Whyrlwynd Well said. RIP to a fine man, a kind pacifist.

@@suecondon1685 , конечно для вас хороший. Он же для вас СССР развалил. Вы англичани, молчите не вам говорить

Shame the same can’t be said for Putin, who would take the country back to how it was under Stalin tomorrow if he has the chance.

Ну очевидно попробуй они сделать некорректный перевод это бы быстро выяснили. Русский язык заграницей тоже учат и не мало людей увидели это видео.

Stfu no one asked

Propane who even invited you

@@josh2232 no

Спасибо, мой Русский друг!

I tried to search up if he was dead and no answers until now

Yeah, I don't research if he's dead or not. I just guessed he's dead.

I knew he was alive

I thought he was dissapear :D

You're right.

He was smaller when Soviet Union and Nazi germany invaded Poland together

@@DJALEXNOWO he was even smaller when Germany annexed Austria

@@lincolngray4362 And he was born a month after Japan invaded Manchuria. Everything else right after, this man has lived through!

And he shaped the course of our history books as well

Να λες τα πράγματα με το όνομα τούς Η Ναζιστική Γερμανία εισέβαλε στην Σοβιετικη ένωση και μετά. Πήγαινε η Σοβιετικη ένωση εκεί. Νάτο λες όπως είναι όχι να αλλάζουμε την ιστορία.

How he saved the world from the Third World War ?

previous soviet leaders threatened the us to launch nuclear missiles and destroy the world

@@RandomShortsUploader didn't American leaders threaten in the same way ?

He didn’t save us from a world war, it was pretty unlikely almost no matter which politician would be in charge instead of him. But he did give his people liberties and cut down on the killing.

No one saves me from world war three

no we weren't

Hey when can I preorder Soviet Union 2?

I suspect most people assumed he was dead because he seems like a character of history from a bygone era.

When Stalin died nobody wanted to disturb him just in case he might be sleeping and wake up in a bad mood. True story.

@Lance Penguin I don't see the validity of comparing a random US citizen to the head of state of the Soviet Union in terms of "are we going to check if he's alive?". Talk about whataboutism.

If your name ends with in, time to get out!

Mikhail Raleigh Patricio no shit

Did somebody say real power?

Said hello to both Ronald's,Reagan and McDonald's no doubt

greg oscar You ruined the joke.

EMIL FEIKMAN he is a Russian working for BBC

@@Masaru_kun Who is the cats

I thought he was Russian!! was a bit shocked when Gorbachev said "you british"

@@harveyhassett967 his accent is way off for a russian native

veter severnyj I just guessed to be honest ahahah

Damn Putin, he is dictator

@@tankop1043 .

@@sadanandkumbhar9960 yes, i admit... I was very rude, but it doesn't means that i said lie

Im from Russia and the Putin is truly a dictator

Putin is no dictator. Russia had dictators, we know how to tell the difference

What? I must knoe

@@XxCheese69xX Some years ago he did a commercial for Hutt

Frank Reynolds Yeah who knew that he worked for the Hutts

@@antikokalis look this video my friend's ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fgm14D1jHUw.html

@@Khronik_ he just need money for he foundation

well as we heard from this interview he doesn't actually give a fuck how long putin will rule the country. meet the real democrat...

He hasnt spent 36 years on power tho

@@randomriku6774 Russians 'voted' him in to office until 2036. Putin took power in early 2000's

👅

@@k.i.c6463 wrong. He CAN be voted in future. Nobody knows what will happen in Russian politic after civil war in Belarus

@Sainayoro no he was not the brejnev started the fall of the solvent union and gorbochov had a canse to restart everything but he just killed it forever

@@allenk6373 blah blah blah yankee

@@allenk6373 exactly...he did what was right, everybody knows you can't lie ppl 24/7 and force them, limit them and so on in such times, he did what was right, let the ppl to decide what they want, good or bad is their call, if i want to eat pizza i should be right to do so even if is not healthy

yeah

@@allenk6373 USA is going bye bye soon yankee. American Mail order brides, here I come! 👋

You can see his lower lip shaking when he continued talking.

Well i mean....russia lost 25-30 million people in a non nuclear war....imagine if nuclears were used

America would have surrendered after the first 10 million Americans died.

@@levvy3006 America joined the war in the fourth year

@@francisjohn7963 making them the ones who less took casualties from the war no? Principally when talking civilians.

Especially the ukrainians gratefull to him. It's so great to have a war with Russia or somebody else.

Yes, you are absolutely right, he saved the West, and brought the post-Soviet countries into poverty. May he burn in hell, traitor.

@@malaha84 It's better to have a war with Russia than it was with the Soviet Union. Russia is losing so badly it's embarrassing

Huh? lol

@@amazin7006 This is not true, keep listening to the West's news.

Yeah and just look at America now

@@eagleowl833 he is talking about tsar valdmir putin of russia, Who will rule russia for lifetime

@@birinderwarraich1179 Damn Son, He Ruled about 40% of his life,But The USA Should Have an opponent. The Re-United Soviet Union

@@savage_aly8752 usa already have an opponent, The great dragon china

@@birinderwarraich1179 I know lol, Let The Eastern Soviet Union Destroy the West as well

Gorbachev IS NOT a person who would tell truth, he destroyed USSR by being president or whatever. If you want true story go to the interner and search USSR 1985

Gorbachev is a traitor. Many Russians hate him, myself included.

@@fyodorkojevin5756 shame on you! Gorbachev is the one who finished the cold war. People with your mindset will cause war and death. Dude, the Soviet Union has done many bad things over decades just like many other superpowers and (America), but sometimes even worse (Afghanistan invasion, Korean war , Vietnam )where both was included and it nearly turned out into a big atomic war. Gorbachev was an intelligent man who saw it would just cause millions of deaths again on both sides and decided to stop it, which was absolutely the right decision. Imagine the atomic war between USA and UDSSR there would still today be the half world full of atomic stuff and the planet would be nearly destroyed. Be glad someone like him existed!

I am ashamed of the people who responded here

@@fyodorkojevin5756 Why? Without his glasnost and perestroika, you are not even allowed to have a freedom of speech. You would be right modern China like now. He was the reason why many countries was able to retained their sovereignty.

"Come look at this old soviet leader!"

Majestic Javelin lmaooo

Then have him repeat “This is the former soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev of the former Soviet Union” about 10 times, just to confirm that it is in fact the former soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev of the former Soviet Union.

"Wow, look at this, this is the most Soviet person I've ever seen, I'm loving it."

YES

Well, they didn't tell you how he died and when... so... ;)))

So did I, even though I'm Russian. Mind-blowing...

i didn't knew is he dead or no, but I saw on world internet about him, by the way we learned about him last year

Some others responding thought he had died too... probably have him confused with his successor after the Soviet collapse, Boris Yeltsin.

Well since the USSR is long gone and he has distanced himself from the Russian government (not politics in general) they can get a reliable opinion about the current World Stage, however if some american or european who watches the interview believes its just full of poo poo because he is an ex-commie then thats fine still, we cant force them out of that brainwashed mindset

They f****** better. Everyone all the time, all throughout history. Everybody has a camera so let's get as much primary source info as we can!!!!

@@felipesubiabre314 red means dead

@@donsuh1105 - That is a rather pathetic comment you made! Spoken like a typical right-winger!

Its not every day that they an interview a biggest traitor in whole human history.

LFSG Is it really that? Perhaps he is one of a few men who held great and terrible powers and it actually grieves him to remember his people’s anguish and loss of WWII. Regards...

LFSG your conclusion is incorrect. Its that he feels emotional about it. Its an emotional subject, so much suffering.

@@ned900 Who knows?

They are all traitors, including Putin, they play to your tune, and defend your country's interests

@@bh2o Man do you even know what you are talking about, do you even know at which period Gotbatchev became General Secretary of the Communist Party, and when he became President of the Soviet Union? You're talking absolute nonsense and comparing the end of the 80s-90s in USSR to the 50s before Stalin died, as if it was the same for 40 years. Gorbatchev was the president who gave to his people the most "freedom" as we call it in the west, and who opened his country to the world.

Well, Queen Elizabeth reign since the 1950s while Gorbachev didn't reach a decade in office. Also, the Queen is way older than Gorbachev.

@@unsec-genantonioguterres5788 r/wooosh

@@LeNumidium I believe it is r/woooosh with 4 o's

@@unsec-genantonioguterres5788 yes but unlike queen liz, he actually had power and did something nobel with it

Jimmy carter noises

God Gamer yea hes the ex soviet leader why would it notbe interesting to talk to him lmao

Most leaders are more interesting in person. And AFTER they played their part. It means that they can be more honest. Watch the death of Yugoslavia - it has the same spirit as this interview.

@@affentaktik2810 Because he ain't american.

He would tell you how to destroy one of the most powerful country in the world. It's the best he can do, oh actually saying bullshit for money is his hobby.

@@restyecp most powerful Country? Yes in that logic disgusting Kim Jong eun is one of them. The most powerful is the country the most people want to immigrate and want to live.

90 years old

Why this "hero" live out of Russia after destructing the USSR? Do you know why?

​@@malaha84 Because the autocratic fascists murder all political opposition. Remember their names, Anna Politkovskaya, Alexander Litvinenko, Sergei Magnitsky, Paul Klebnikov, Sergei Yushenkov, Natalia Estemirova, Alexander Perepilichnyy, Boris Berezovsky, Sergei, Yulia SkripalBoris Nemtsov, Denis Voronenkov, Stanislav Markelov And Anastasia Baburova

@@amazin7006 What are you talking about? You want to say that capitalism created its criminal?)))

​@@malaha84 потому что в России его бы убили Его ненавидит народ, он предатель родиины

​@@АВАНГАРД-т8юonly correct answer

But he not british

Churchill was a piece of shit

@@redireland3006 ok buddy

@@RemoveBolshevik You must be unaware of his racist history with the Indians

@@redireland3006 Just because people do bad things doesn't mean they aren't good people. Without Churchill, democracy as we know it would no longer exist, Hitler would have won. I don't condone his racism, but he good far outweighted his bad.

*74 years. 1917-1991

@@purple.requiem its 1922

@@CodaTV2010 but the soviet thing started since 1917 as Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic

@@purple.requiem yeah but this guys on about the soviet union which started in 1922

@@CodaTV2010 false. The term "Soviet" was created in 1917.

lol

Wonder where he got that

Wind Of Change, For World Peace. Over 782 million views on RU-vid

@@rockerchick4368 ?

LMAO... Thanx John RObert Teves :)

As a tribute to the victims of his policies.

@@wederMaxim The Soviet and Russian peoples suffered under all their leaders. Russia is a country that has been perpetually exploited, betrayed, and abused by its own leaders. At least Gorbachev tried to make things better.

@@porsche911sbs How the people suffered under Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev... and other Soviet leaders before Gorbachev? Except for the WW1

​@@wederMaxim Lenin: Red Terror (1918-1922), honest socialists, SRs and Mensheviks, were executed for opposing Bolshevik policies Stalin: Holodomor (1932-33), poor policies led to needless amount of starvation Stalin: Great Purge of 1937 and subsequent purges led to thousands of loyal communists being executed, including a significant amount of Red Army officers (weakening the Red Army before the invasion by Germany) Stalin: Russification policies and suppression of nationalities other than Russian and Georgian led to suffering and resentment of Russia and the USSR (contributed to the USSR's weakness later on and exploited during the collapse of the USSR) Khrushchev and successors: Censorship led to the repression of free speech that criticized the government

@@porsche911sbs Lenin did everything right. To hell with the White Guard fascists. The Holodomor is a common Ukrainian propaganda. About Stalin's purges: there is such a liberal historian (used to be a liberal) Viktor Nikolaevich Zemskov, who instead of writing books about how Stalin eats babies, did a terrible thing - got into the archives. After that, he wrote a book with the stupid title "Stalin and the People, why the people did not rise up," where he made terrible conclusions that over 30 years of bloody Stalinism, no more than 1.5 percent of the population suffered from the terrible Stalinist repressions. Freedom of speech is complete bullshit. She was nowhere and never will be. I can't say anything about Russification. This is the last thing liberals remember when they lie about Stalin, so I've never looked for anything on this topic.

He was not trying, his main problem was fact that he did not actually know what to do, he tried to make some reforms, but then he realized that he do not understand what to do and how to do. But instead of being honest to say it and leave the post of leader, he was just sitting silent and letting all the shit around to happen. This one man was more dangerous for whole Socialistic Bloc than whole NATO. He betrayed all the leaders of Bloc, such as Honecker, he betrayed all the Eastern Germans who still feel themselves as foreigners in their own country, he just ruined what people was building for 70 years. In interview to Russian news he was saying that he is very sorry about how all this happened, and that dissolution of USSR is his main fail in whole life. But nothing can be changed after it happened, he can be billion times sorry, but fact that when he had opportunity to do just everything, he decided to actually do nothing, and killed the system from the inside.

@@denis1049 thing is everybody wanted freedom. East Germans also helped take the wall down. Every country that became independant was happy, and almost instantly threw away communism.

​@@felaxi5052, freedom, you say? Go and read news about Germany, when Merkel said that emigrants should feel themselves at Germany as at their home, East Germans said "Maybe you will make us feel as at home ,to start?" 30 years after unification have passed, whole industry of DDR have died, last leader of DDR are living now with pension lover than cleaners have, all the conditions in post-DDR are lover than in Western Germany, and you are speaking of so-called liberation. Man, when countries of Soviet Bloc leaving Warsaw Pact only to join NATO and become satellites of USA and Western Europe, that is not liberation, it is just changing of the side. But there is still difference in before and after: in Socialistic bloc this countries had better conditions, but in EU they are always will be as secondary countries. EU ruined economic in such countries as Hungary, Poland, Romania, Czechia, DDR, and now they are living a way more bad than 30 years ago. In Soviet Bloc Hungary was a country with a strong agriculture, one of the biggest in Europe engineering and grand electronics manufacturing industry. Now whole Hungarian industry are dead, agriculture also dying because EU not allow Hungary to produce goods EU does not want it to produce, and from a strong country with top conditions Hungary now became one of the poorest country in Europe and it thinking about leaving EU. Such a great liberation, you know.

​@@denis1049 Don't waste your tongue with them friend. They don't know what socialism and communism are. Only those who live there know the impact of the collapse of the Soviet Union. A great country stolen by several shameless people like Boris Yeltsin . Soviet citizens were betrayed. Even today i still wonder why Mikhail Gorbachev allow this happen. Being a Chinese. i understand you. Countries that believe in Western lies now just lives in hell. just look at Ukraine and Former Yugoslavia countries.

@@Onattttt Then you were born to be exploited by Capitalism. just Remind you. before First International and Haymarket massacre. Labor works almost 14 hours a day. six days a week. and no Labour law protects them.

durr cringe

@Dimitri Papa di Nikolaus you are cringe

Alan MacLaren • 76 years ago durr cringe

@Dimitri Papa di Nikolaus get your ass to gulag

@@alanmaclaren4118 Too bad man..Gulag didn't exist anymore..... But the prison still exist!

a leader that sold his country and people for the enrichment of capitalists. Undoing the successes of the revolution on which the soviet union was founded on

But it's just how they translated his words... The meaning of 'Clever clogs' suited well for the Russian word 'умники' and that's it

Родион Свинухов I would say “smartasses” would be the proper translation tbh

@@RASIII9 Yeah but in English thats an insult

@@billclinton3862 not necessarily, smartass just means you're creative with your words and like to humor people. At least that's the way I always took it. So clever clogs would come close.

@@psychedeliccarrie5921 probably

Oh give him a break man, at least just give him 30 minutes or 1 hour, like he's old as heck man, and all the shits he gone through

Also one of the people that they want dead.

@@mrsobamad3387 straight facts

I AGREE

Он один из самых жестоких убийц 20 века !!! На его счету десятки млн жертв , и конца-края не видно . Будь он трижды проклят !!!

because he is the one who make it happen and destory a great country.

@@shinefirex5185 Yeltsin did that

Chuk Uzosike but Gorbachev should stop Yeltsin or do something at least. not just give up.

Shine FireX fam, you lot were eating stray dogs, by you lot I mean my great grandmother

pxanut racist scambag.

*Tondo* You’d be surprised. It’s possibly my favorite video to ask people if they’ve seen before so that I can show them if they haven’t. It’s always a hoot

Hail Gorbachev!

Ya everybody knows

Yes and few days after that comercial, that Pizza Hut bankrupted and closed

I did not know thank you

🤯 Really? That's mad!

@@anon1534 Are you surprised that I had a long conversation with him, or that he is a good man?

You are pity

@Salis Omar u know he's one of the best people u ever met based on 10 minutes spent with the guy? Really?

@@HogarJr I have a doctorate degree with the thesis on Soviet adventure in Afghanistan. I have read more than 200 books on the subject with douzens about Gorbachev. I have studied everything and anything about him. The ten minutes meeting with him was an icing on the cake. Is that enough for you Hogar?

Nuclear weapons prohibit war🤔🤔🤔

@@黄婷婷-y6w That presumes no-one uses them, or ever thinks anyone else is using them. If systems used to detected incoming missiles false flagged nuclear weapons, that could easily trigger retaliation and nuclear warfare. Also, if anyone untoward, like a terrorist organisation, were to get ahold of nuclear weapons, this could cause severe global issues that could easily be avoided if they were eliminated. Nuclear weapons are 'weapons'. They don't prohibit war, they are a tool of war that so far has managed to dissuade war. This includes multiple events where nuclear retaliation has been literally minutes from occurring due to false flags, and thanks to human correction or abstaining from ordering retaliation. I'd say that's walking a thin line. If they didn't exist, no thin line.

@@evan2173 you are right

agree

@@forsterchurch6242 Nukes dampen conflicts.

Influential? He took over the greatest country in the world and ended up having two bodyguards.

@@JackConners123 Greatest country in history? go back to history class son.

@@M-Maxentius British empire wasn't centralized enough, let alone Mongolia.

@@M-Maxentius ok grandpa 😶

He is a important figure in the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. The only soviet leader that realized communist closed Market economy doesnt work well.

That's like saying, may Adolf Hitler rest in peace.

@@hroarrhrogarhalfdanssonafs9414 you definitely know nothing about him

@@hroarrhrogarhalfdanssonafs9414 That's not the same thing, this guy was nothing like Hitler

​@@yeah1326He killed as much as russians as Hitler did, if not more.

@@hroarrhrogarhalfdanssonafs9414 Imagine comparing Gorbachev to Hitler... Think you fell down a flight of stairs head first before writing that, didn't you?

Because they’re thrilled that they’ve caused the destruction of our democracy.

He's own experience would advocate for a stop Brexit resolve.

"You Brits are clever clogs, you'll figure it out."

he doesn't have to. he got plenty of experience with former superpowers destroying themselves through their own stupidity already. maybe they'll ask his advice when they finally put Britain out of it's long overdue misery.

@@SouthernHerdsman he didnt trust the eu so why would tell britain to remain? eu is as bad as the old soviet union. gorby doesn't trust putin either.

Dominik Knežević Not to mention the majority of USSR citizens said that they wanted the union to continue but he dissolved it for his own personal gain anyway.

@Dominik Knežević he did cuz he was a spineless leader and a puppet of the west. But I'm glad that Germany reunited. The fall of the USSR had positive consequences.

@@akindudeerada5840 don't say he was spineless, he was the people's leader. he cared for people

@@akindudeerada5840 Germany reunited under western occupation, which is still is today.

Brew Colthup Well they wanted the *union* to survive, not the communist policies that had been driving that train wreck for that last nigh on 70 years

I was thinking the same thing 🤣

Yeah it'd be a shame if he tripped and fell out of a window at his age

Has he been seen in public since this interview?🤔

Won't be having any tea for a while I imagine

There's a difference between wisdom and cowardice. I would honestly say that it's difficult to see which one he displayed here.

The legend that destroyed the USSR with its inept government

@@mapping8941 Maybe but Gorbachev allowed greater freedom in the USSR. He even let eastern block to choose it's own future. If it wasn't for him all former soviet republics would've been still under a dictatorship.

@@Waltuh138 do you know anything about the crisis of the 90s? how much the post-Soviet countries suffered from the destruction of the USSR, how many wars and conflicts began because of the separation. Oh freedom, now we can afford a pizza hut! What unification, "freedom"! I'm just smeared with it, I need it so much! If the USA collapsed, I guess, the USSR would also award prizes and An award-winning president who would have made this. You see only good things in the destruction of the USSR, the "evil empire" has spread, finally the United States can carry out operations and no one will stop it, carry out operations in Libya, Syria, Yugoslavia ... And no one can do anything to her will say because there is no USSR.

well if he slips up, he will be slipping in СИБИР

Listen to what he said instead of being like all the sheep you think he's scared of Putin. He chose his words carefully because he knows how important Putin is right now.

@@smartgenes1 You just prove my point even further dipshit. Also on a side note calling someone "sheep" doesn't change the fact that you're 83 iq at best :p

@@Vollzer Well I lived in Siberia...very beautiful country and nature

@@romanmagizow6962 so did Dostoevsky

I was also there.

@@GurpreetSingh-vs4kg Same

Black Ops cold war is cringe

Me too homie

@@sonntagbeiomi6960 it is but i think we will remember it like we remember cod ghosts and advanced warfare

guy's still alive and kicking at 89

Ha ha, cod reference there, comrade

hahahahahahahhahaah damn

I can think of no greater tragedy than a home violated from the inside

We’ve got a job to do

Lol

He did try his best (if I remember him correctly so do not hold me to what I’m about to say) after he replaced Stalin

That's simply not true. He was always seen as a man of peace, across the world, including the UK and the US. From day 1 of his leadership the world took notice of the light at the end of the tunnel. Nobody made him look like a monster at all. Don't rewrite history, it's tenuously truthful as it is...

@@joshdavis4168 Gorbachev replaced Stalin? ...really? No. There were Soviet leaders with names like Chernenko and Breznev, Nikita Khruschev and Andropov in between Stalin and Gorbachev. ...and that's not even including the man who ACTUALLY took over after Uncle Joe's death, albeit it for a short while. His name began with an M.. Macenkov or something like that.

If you think that was bad look at what the allies did to Adolf...

Ee Rr the soviets reportedly shot him but we still don’t know about that

Putin: *sweats nervously*

You need a yoga,you need a shower,and you all need to handle real power.

@@kurtzipagan6704also putin: did someone sae real powa

@@brysuagar6520 ayyy do you wanna mess with me, i spit hot borsch when im crushing this beats.

@@Bob.629 Lenin And Stalin Sweat Nervously

Thanks to Communist agitator Putin

Those promises were never made...

@@UPPERKEES You were there? He said it not once, furthermore, you can google conferences with american president, they were going to be friendly and promised that they will be friends and they are into Russia, not USSR and NATO will not move further

@@UPPERKEES nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early#.WjAX9r_XxYI.twitter don't embarass yourself

lol do you blame NATO? Look at Ukraine and Georgia. Putin is taking a bite of countries that are not in NATO. It is Russia that is annexing neighboring countries and that is why NATO is needed and required with countries like Ukraine eager to join.

@@karima8757 haha, stop watching BBC only) NATO is all across Russian, USA is around the world and right now atacking Venezuela! Russia is going to give away islands to Japan even though they fo not follow the treaty and will not move away UA bases from there, such a strange Russian aggression! Russia got back ITS Crimea whihch was a part of Ukraine only because of the Khruschev's decision and they didn't know that time that USSR will dissolve at all! Learn history better! BTW, how many Ukranian soldiers protected Crimea and died defending it?? How many people there spoke Ukranian language?