DISAPPEARANCE – More tactician than strategist, this former apparatchik dreamed of a socialism with a human face. Persisting in reforming the Union in defiance of the nations, he distanced himself from the aspirations of the peoples he had awakened.
Mikhail Gorbachev will have been the good champion of two bad causes:the survival of communism and the maintenance of the Soviet Union.” This lapidary formula from a Moscow intellectual sums up the whole story… That of an exceptional reformer, whose weakness was to be “the last of the Soviets“. Passionately, viscerally.
This irreducible datum has so profoundly shaped the vision of the world of Mikhail Gorbachev that she ended up killing him. He who had always known how to anticipate the reactions of his political opponents in the party did not see the cyclone of national rebirths coming. He persisted in reforming the Union in defiance of the nations.
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Some will speak of fault, even of political blindness. But did Gorbachev have the means not to be blind? Could Gorbachev disown Gorbachev? “We cannot separate, comrades, he cried in December 1990 before a congress of writers. It’s written in our genes!»
Did the man of perestroika ever say otherwise…
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