--- Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net> wrote:
> Liquidate is classical Leninist lingo. Would
> Gorby
> really speak this way?
> Michael Pugliese
>
> "My Ambition was to Liquidate Communism"
> Mikhail Gorbachev
>
> My ambition was to liquidate communism, the
> dictatorship over all the people. Supporting me and
> urging me on in this mission was my wife, who was of
> this opinion long before I was. I knew that I could
> only do this if I was the leading functionary. In
> this
> my wife urged me to climb to the top post. While I
> actually became acquainted with the West, my mind
> was
> made up forever. I decided that I must destroy the
> whole apparatus of the CPSU and the USSR. Also, I
> must
> do this in all of the other socialist countries. My
> ideal is the path of social democracy. Only this
> system shall benefit all the people. This quest I
> decided I must fulfil.
>
> I found friends that had the same thoughts as I in
> Yakovlev and Shevernadze, they all deserve to be
> thanked for the break-up of the USSR and the defeat
> of
> Communism.
>
> World without communism is going to be much better.
> After year 2000 the world will be much better,
> because
> it shall develop and prosper. But there are
> countries
> which shall try to struggle against this. China for
> one. I was in Peking during the time of the protests
> on Tienanmen Square, where I really thought that
> Communism in China is going to crash. I sternly
> demanded of the Chinese leadership that I want to
> speak to the protesters, but they did not allow me
> to
> do so. If Communism would fall in China, all the
> world
> would be better off, and on the road to peace.
>
> I wanted to save the USSR, but only under social
> democracy rule. This I could not do. Yeltsin wanted
> power, he did not know anything about democracy or
> what I intended to do. We wanted the democratic USSR
> to have rights and freedom.
>
> Then Yeltsin broke up the USSR and at that time I
> was
> not in the Kremlin, all the newspaper reporters
> asked
> me whether I shall cry? I did not cry, because I
> really managed to destroy Communism in the USSR, and
> also in all other European Socialist countries. I
> did
> not cry, because I knew that I fulfilled my main
> aim,
> that was the defeat of communism in Europe. But you
> must also know, that communism must be defeated in
> Asia also, to make the transition quicker to
> democracy
> and freedom in the whole world.
>
> The liquidation of the USSR is not beneficial to the
> USA, since they have now no mighty democratic
> country
> (the former USSR) which I wanted to call the Union
> of
> Independent Sovereign Republics. I could not
> accomplish all of this. All the small countries now
> are thanking the USA for the help. I wanted the USA
> and the former USSR to be partners without the
> scourge
> of Communism, these could have been the ruling
> countries of the world. The road towards democracy
> will be a long one, but it is coming very quickly.
> The
> whole world must now defeat the last remnants of
> communism!
>
> This is from an interview by newspapers with
> Gorbachev
> in Ankara, Turkey where he was a guest at a seminar
> at
> the American University. It was published in the
> 'Dialog' newspaper in the Czech Republic. Courtesy:
> 'Northstar Compass', Toronto, February, 2000.
>
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