Jesse Lemisch
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Doss" <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 12:39 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] Gorbachev: "I should have been as tough as Putin"
> World Updates
> September 19, 2006
> "I should have been as tough as Putin" - Gorbachev
>
> MOSCOW (Reuters) - Former Soviet leader Mikhail
> Gorbachev said on Tuesday he supported tough measures
> taken by Russian President Vladimir Putin and wished
> he had adopted them.
>
> Gorbachev, whose political reforms led to the collapse
> of the communist empire, said he should have squashed
> the challenge from Boris Yeltsin, his arch-rival and
> subsequently first Russian president, by sending him
> into diplomatic exile.
>
> And he said separatist outbreaks that plagued his last
> years in power should have been crushed by taking
> their leaders to court.
>
> "I have reviewed my values and made conclusions,"
> Interfax news agency quoted the father of perestroika
> as saying during presentation of a new book "In the
> Politburo of the Soviet Communist Party".
>
> "I now support Putin as far as resorting to tough
> measures to maintain stability is concerned," he said.
>
>
> Putin, who succeeded Yeltsin in 2000, has moved to
> restore Kremlin control over Russia, lost in the first
> post-Soviet decade marked by unending political crises
> and economic hardships for the majority of the
> population.
>
> In achieving his goals, Putin has subdued political
> opposition and put political forces, government and
> regional administrations under strong Kremlin control
> triggering Western fears that Russia could be
> backtracking on democracy.
>
> In the past Gorbachev has reacted cautiously to
> Putin's policies.
>
> Gorbachev had earlier said that the destruction of the
> Soviet Union in late 1991, spearheaded by Yeltsin, was
> an unnecessary shock to the nation rather than a help
> in achieving liberal goals.
>
> "Yeltsin should have been sent away to a diplomatic
> post," he added. "Separatists should have been hit --
> I mean confronted with criminal responsibility rather
> than attacked with machineguns."
>
> Copyright © 2005 Reuters
>
>
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