"Remember that shortly after Mikhail Gorbachev went to Tiananmen to encourage that movement, what had been a peaceful standoff erupted into bloody fighting. Gorbachev himself was seen at that time by many socialists and communists, especially in the West, as a proponent of democratic socialism. Today he is one of the most hated people in Russia. He paved the way for the destruction of everything the workers in all the former Soviet republics built up over 70 years. He let the wolf in at the door."
Gorby's not really hated, more pitied as a week fool. Now Yeltsin, that's the devil.
Chris Doss The Russia Journal