Mikhail Gorbachev is one of the few personalities free from Russia. It is a right that he deserved. Him his freedom also comes from his great age. As the poet says [Iosif Brodsky] in another connection, it now has "no need to flatter nor to be afraid, nor to hurry." Gorbachev belongs only to himself, impossible to privatize the nationalized while, as we did with Boris Yeltsin (privatized by Vladimir Putin and nationalized by the current government as a whole).
It was therefore within its rights by setting out its truths in the press conference that preceded it, February 21, the ceremonies of his 80th birthday. He found a subtle wording: "I [...] does not like Putin always respond that they [he and Medvedev] will decide and set [to be presidential candidate in 2012].
Why these two? This is not the preserve of Putin. This is the problem of the whole nation is a matter of choice. When Putin speaks well, you'd think that only he who counts is pretentious. It is the arrogance that lost me too. "Truism. Gorbachev, like all seniors, said things simple. And indeed, why they decide for us who should run the country? Why we says it that we are not ready for democracy? Twenty-two years have passed since Gorbachev introduced the first free elections in 1989.
"When we started to broadcast the debates on television, theaters are empty, everyone passed his evenings in front of his television. People lined up at the newsstand, because it was there that was real life. Today we have a parliament, courts, a president, but it is essentially a facade.
In parliament, United Russia has monopolized power. "It is said that Gorbachev destroyed the Soviet Union. In fact, he desperately tried to resist collapse. He was a Communist, and his debut to power, he has kept the rhetoric own Party. Gorbachev began to change the country, but it took a while before realizing that, in parallel, the country had changed.
He partially opened the gates, hoping to give a human face on socialism, but the entire dam which gave way in no time, and there remained then only to drown under the waves or to seek ride the wave for the illusion of leading this surge. But the gushing river took its liberator of speed and led to the place indicated by the invisible hand of the market, to capitalism.
In December 1987, the American journalist Eugene Methvin already spoke of the "dilemma of Gorbachev's" glasnost [openness] came from the top of the state, but she shook her power. This policy could be continued or interrupted. Y end meant the end of perestroika, the "let live" would deal a fatal blow to the power of the CPSU.
By this time it was obvious. It was forgotten, but Gorbachev might have been an additional secretary general in an unbroken line of men in hats and coats gray. He could stay in place until the end, preserving the purity of the only valid teaching [of Lenin]. But he sincerely wanted to change a country that could no longer change.
It could only be "reformatted" and rebuilt. It has not reconciled itself to this reality, and so that another officer [Yeltsin, from 1991] set out to build a new state on the ruins of communism. This man was also the flesh of the flesh of the Communist Party, also a former first secretary of a large area [Stavropol in southern Russia, Gorbachev, and Sverdlovsk in the Urals, to Yeltsin].
Gorbachev had undertaken to evolve the consciousness of a huge nation. It has slowly begun to regain its historical memory. Step by step, as a being whose brain is suffering from a hematoma that resolves gradually. Political changes have been very progressive and reform of the economy very hesitant, mired in the "market socialism" and khozraschtchiot ["self accounting", a concept created to avoid talking abruptly privatization or profitability].
But then, we love much more than now. Enthusiastic, influential, we exert real influence on policy decisions, even if it took until 1988 to see men in hats expelled from the Politburo, and we read a lot, eagerly. Gorbachev changed the world map. The geopolitical rebalancing only end that right now, and it is only now that perestroika is nearing completion.
All peoples of the world are grateful for these changes. All except the Russians. That does not seem to have learned to be Russians, but not already know what it was like to be the Soviets. They therefore needed a "father", someone who shows them how to live. The Russians do not like Gorbachev, but they like Stalin.
While it is indeed Gorbachev gave them access to the world. Freedom to travel is probably the last that we want, and we refuse to yield. But should we believe fell from heaven? This freedom also, that we owe Gorbachev. His televised speech when he left office [December 1991] is a document of great depth.
And great sadness. "The company has obtained freedom, has liberated itself from its political and legal channels. It is the most important conquests, and we have not yet fully aware, because we have not yet learned to enjoy freedom. "True, we still do not know what to do . But maybe it will come.
Perestroika is not yet really finished. We do are simply not realized. What is the difference between a politician in the history of a politician who entangles them? Stature. Another quote from the press conference, Gorbachev yesterday when he mentioned [the former CEO of Yukos juqu'en kept in prison in 2017 after a second trial] Mikhail Khodorkovsky: "In this case, many things I crumple.
If the defendants have actually shed blood, they must respond. Otherwise, their detention has lasted long enough. I remember how it started, replies are exchanged by Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. Me too, I did a lot of unpleasant remarks. In everything we said or written about me that there are 70% of things that I do not like.
Imagine what it would be if I wanted my revenge every time. "Yeltsin and Gorbachev were not vindictive. This has made them men of large, free men. If we do not like them, because our own minds are not free. 
It was therefore within its rights by setting out its truths in the press conference that preceded it, February 21, the ceremonies of his 80th birthday. He found a subtle wording: "I [...] does not like Putin always respond that they [he and Medvedev] will decide and set [to be presidential candidate in 2012].
Why these two? This is not the preserve of Putin. This is the problem of the whole nation is a matter of choice. When Putin speaks well, you'd think that only he who counts is pretentious. It is the arrogance that lost me too. "Truism. Gorbachev, like all seniors, said things simple. And indeed, why they decide for us who should run the country? Why we says it that we are not ready for democracy? Twenty-two years have passed since Gorbachev introduced the first free elections in 1989.
"When we started to broadcast the debates on television, theaters are empty, everyone passed his evenings in front of his television. People lined up at the newsstand, because it was there that was real life. Today we have a parliament, courts, a president, but it is essentially a facade.
In parliament, United Russia has monopolized power. "It is said that Gorbachev destroyed the Soviet Union. In fact, he desperately tried to resist collapse. He was a Communist, and his debut to power, he has kept the rhetoric own Party. Gorbachev began to change the country, but it took a while before realizing that, in parallel, the country had changed.
He partially opened the gates, hoping to give a human face on socialism, but the entire dam which gave way in no time, and there remained then only to drown under the waves or to seek ride the wave for the illusion of leading this surge. But the gushing river took its liberator of speed and led to the place indicated by the invisible hand of the market, to capitalism.
In December 1987, the American journalist Eugene Methvin already spoke of the "dilemma of Gorbachev's" glasnost [openness] came from the top of the state, but she shook her power. This policy could be continued or interrupted. Y end meant the end of perestroika, the "let live" would deal a fatal blow to the power of the CPSU.
By this time it was obvious. It was forgotten, but Gorbachev might have been an additional secretary general in an unbroken line of men in hats and coats gray. He could stay in place until the end, preserving the purity of the only valid teaching [of Lenin]. But he sincerely wanted to change a country that could no longer change.
It could only be "reformatted" and rebuilt. It has not reconciled itself to this reality, and so that another officer [Yeltsin, from 1991] set out to build a new state on the ruins of communism. This man was also the flesh of the flesh of the Communist Party, also a former first secretary of a large area [Stavropol in southern Russia, Gorbachev, and Sverdlovsk in the Urals, to Yeltsin].
Gorbachev had undertaken to evolve the consciousness of a huge nation. It has slowly begun to regain its historical memory. Step by step, as a being whose brain is suffering from a hematoma that resolves gradually. Political changes have been very progressive and reform of the economy very hesitant, mired in the "market socialism" and khozraschtchiot ["self accounting", a concept created to avoid talking abruptly privatization or profitability].
But then, we love much more than now. Enthusiastic, influential, we exert real influence on policy decisions, even if it took until 1988 to see men in hats expelled from the Politburo, and we read a lot, eagerly. Gorbachev changed the world map. The geopolitical rebalancing only end that right now, and it is only now that perestroika is nearing completion.
All peoples of the world are grateful for these changes. All except the Russians. That does not seem to have learned to be Russians, but not already know what it was like to be the Soviets. They therefore needed a "father", someone who shows them how to live. The Russians do not like Gorbachev, but they like Stalin.
While it is indeed Gorbachev gave them access to the world. Freedom to travel is probably the last that we want, and we refuse to yield. But should we believe fell from heaven? This freedom also, that we owe Gorbachev. His televised speech when he left office [December 1991] is a document of great depth.
And great sadness. "The company has obtained freedom, has liberated itself from its political and legal channels. It is the most important conquests, and we have not yet fully aware, because we have not yet learned to enjoy freedom. "True, we still do not know what to do . But maybe it will come.
Perestroika is not yet really finished. We do are simply not realized. What is the difference between a politician in the history of a politician who entangles them? Stature. Another quote from the press conference, Gorbachev yesterday when he mentioned [the former CEO of Yukos juqu'en kept in prison in 2017 after a second trial] Mikhail Khodorkovsky: "In this case, many things I crumple.
If the defendants have actually shed blood, they must respond. Otherwise, their detention has lasted long enough. I remember how it started, replies are exchanged by Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. Me too, I did a lot of unpleasant remarks. In everything we said or written about me that there are 70% of things that I do not like.
Imagine what it would be if I wanted my revenge every time. "Yeltsin and Gorbachev were not vindictive. This has made them men of large, free men. If we do not like them, because our own minds are not free.
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