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Strange bedfellows, indeed
: In a Times of London interview, Mikhail Gorbachev reveals that he is a Blairite socialist and Jesus was the first socialist and he and Pope John Paul were penpals and he thinks Margaret Thatcher should be a model for Vladimir Putin.
It would be funny, if it weren’t so sickening, to read a communist claiming to be all about the individual. And his denial of Chernobyl is mentioned in passing, as if some insignificance, as is his admission that: “Later I came to understand Stalinism had to be rejected, but it took a lifetime to come to that conclusion.”
The guy is no cute and cuddly humanitarian, and I wish daft journalists like Jasper Gerard would stop regarding him as such.
So could this little man extending his hand really be the giant who ended the cold war and dismantled the ìevil empireî?
What a crock. Gorbachev tried and failed to preserve Communism and the Soviet Union. He didn’t end the Cold War. He merely admitted defeat. This ex-post facto rehabilitation and canonization is absurd. Gorbachev should be given credit for accepting the reality of the failure of the USSR – and nothing more.