Journalist Alexei Venediktov, a close friend of the last Soviet president, Mikhail Gorbachev, said he was horrified to see Putin destroy his life’s work.
About this he told in an interview with Forbes Russia.
“I can tell you that he is disappointed, of course he understands [что происходит]. It was his life’s work. Freedom is Gorbachev’s business,” the journalist said, recalling the policy of perestroika and glasnost, which included, in particular, freedom of speech and religion.
Now, according to the journalist, all this “Gorbachev’s legacy” has been destroyed in the Russian Federation by Putin’s policy. “So that [Горбачев] Can you tell me now?” he said.
Venediktov also recalled that when Gorbachev headed the USSR in 1985-1991, there were 4,000 troops in Europe from units of the NATO Rapid Reaction Force.
“Now NATO has announced that there will be 300,000 people here by the end of next year,” he said. The journalist added that this means a huge increase in the level of threat between East and West.
Recall health status of 91-year-old Mikhail Gorbachevwho was the last communist leader of the Soviet Union, deteriorated significantly.
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