Mikhail Gorbachev: I‘m ’Ashamed’ of Vladimir Putin
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Former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev said in a new interview he is "ashamed" of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. (AP)
Former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev said he’s “ashamed” of Vladimir Putin, following the Russian prime minister’s 4 1/2-hour televised rant last week.
Gorbachev made his comments to a Russian opposition paper, slamming Putin for his response to the ongoing massive demonstrations the country has seen. Putin — who is expected to win back the Russian presidency next year — had mocked the protesters calling for an end to his rule, sarcastically saying he thought they were an anti-AIDS campaign looked like they had pinned condoms to their chests. Putin also called Arizona Sen. John McCain “nuts” during the same appearance.
“This is shameful. And embarrassing. I, for example, am ashamed,” Gorbachev said of Putin, according to the Telegraph.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (AP)
“I feel tied to Putin in the sense that at first, when he came to power, I actively supported him everywhere, both here and abroad. And now look,” he added.
Gorbachev, 80, also had harsh words for outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, saying he thought Medvedev wrecked his credibility by not having a stronger response to election fraud allegations.
“He said he had no complaints or doubts about the elections. And with that, Dmitry Anatolyevich I think pulled the curtain down on his career,” Gorbachev said.
Gorbachev has become increasingly vocal in criticizing the Kremlin, though the personal attack against Putin represents his strongest criticism yet, the Telegraph reported.
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Comments (82)
garbagecanlogic
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 11:57pmThis guy was one of the best russian leaders they have had.
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
Report Post »The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
Constantine Ivanov
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 12:02amOne of one and half best” – Gorbi and the first half of Yeltsyn.
Report Post »All other good rulers could be found (with a very powerful microsope) only in XIX Century and earlier.
Stuck_in_CA
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 7:49amSo, even the man with a map of Alaska on his head recognizes trouble.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 8:41amAxelPhantom
Report Post »You’re right about Obama selling out the Poles and for what? What exactly did we get in return? Help with Iran? A “restart” in relations with Russia? Hell no, we got squat. That‘s why Putin wants back in so bad and he’s praying Obama gets re elected, Putin knows he can manhandle Obama.
lukerw
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 8:45amSomeons’s going to Die!
Report Post »1776freedomofspeech
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 10:18amYou are right. Putin is missing his chance to be the “good guy”.
He is now becoming a divider; like a certain US president now in the office for about another 12 months.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 10:39amWe might want to reprogram all those ICBM’s to be aimed at Moscow again, because I have the feeling the Soviet Union is making a comeback.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 10:53amRussian Leaders live a long time now? Gorby is right though! This Vlad guy doesn’t fit into the New World Order that Gorby signed onto about 20 years ago.
Report Post »sandy21957
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 11:48pmAmericans were “conned” once before by the promise of the Soviet/Communist fairy tale in the early 1930′s. They were lied to and chewed up and destroyed by the system they thought was going to be their savior. If America doesn’t wake up soon, they could do it again. Just finished reading the book “The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia.” It was eye-opening to how easily people are pulled into fantasies and fairy tales and then are eaten by the monster. It breaks my heart.
Report Post »lodgerat
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 1:24amBoth Bush and NoBama have done a bunch of Putin butt kissing. Bush looked into his eyes and didn’t see a damn thing. NoBama gave away the farm to kiss butt. What a sorry bunch. The whole time our boys were kissing butt the Ruskies were helping Iran build their bomb and helping the rest of the ********** world go after Israel. Nice job boys
Report Post »lodgerat
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 1:31amSorry, I didn’t realize TH was unacceptable. I meant to say the entire Arab world.
Report Post »Endstatism
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 10:28amEveryone should read The Forsaken. I found this book a few months ago and it was quite chilling to read, even more so than Gulag Archipelago
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 10:56amRussians declared a victory of the cold War not for themselves but to the Americans. They just went underground for awhile and now the Bear has emerged from a long winters nap.
Report Post »sandy21957
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 11:38pmThey need to open all of Stalin’s and the NKVD/KGB records. Show all of the evil that was done to both the Russian and world peoples that were su cked into the dark abyss of Lubyanka and the GULAGs. But they don’t want to be open, they want to continue the long and intrenched acts of deception and lies.
Report Post »Constantine Ivanov
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 11:57pm“They” – who? Russians? Americans?
Report Post »In both countries, crazy delusional, but very aggressive people who believe in fairness of Communism ideology (like our domestic idiots Francis Fox Piven, Anita Dunn, Van Jones, Bill Ayers, professional racist Jeremiah Wright, Bernie Sanders and many, way too many others) are very powerful because of spoiled media and enormous support, on the one hand, by disgusting financial wheeler-dealers, like Soros and many other financial moguls (mostly hidden or even open worshipers of Trotsky, Kamenev, Sverdlov, Zinoviev and the likes), and on the other hand, by uneducated envious brainwashed masses (mostly followers of the “everybody owes us” ideology.)
As long as our education system is not changed [forcibly], our country, as well as Russia, will keep decaying. And for us nothing remains except to pour bitter tears.
AxelPhantom
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 2:39amMy mother is from the old soviet block. Does anyone remember that plane crash last year where the Polish President was killed along with 1/2 of the government? They wouldn‘t land in Russian territory because they still don’t trust the Russians, so they crashed instead. There is a long history and a deep mistrust of the Russians still to this day, and Obama handed the Poles and the Ukraines over to Putin on a silver platter when he backed down on the Missle shield. Putin is the ДЬЯВОЛ (Devil) as far as most are concerned.
Report Post »Observer500
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 8:21amTo Axelphantom,
The Polish plane that crashed in Smolensk Russia of 2010 with the Polish president was because the Russian airtower gave incorrect information to the Polish pilot and his crew.
The Russian goverment repeated over and over to the world (as in the Big Lie technique) that the crash was due to “Pilot error” putting all the blame on the Polish pilot. It turns out the Russians were not being honest with all the facts that surrounded that crash.
Historically Polish pilots have been some of the best in the world as they were in Squadron 303 in the Battle of Britain of WWII and as the Polish pilot was when he miraculously landed his crippled plane this past November in Warsaw.
There is no comparison between the help the Polish pilot got from the Warsaw airtower in November vs the “help” the doomed Polish pilot got from the Russian airtower in Smolensk Russia April 2010
Report Post »Constantine Ivanov
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 11:32pmAs a person who lived 50 years under Commies (including Gorbachev), I am wondering: what so unusual or unexpected did Gorbachev find in Putin now (after he supported him)?
Report Post »As a KGB officer, in 1975 Putin has taken the oath to faithfully and loyally serve the Lenin-Stalin’s cause, the cause of Communism – establishing of Communism all over the world.
What that cause is is well known (at least, I perfectly know, unlike too many Americans). And Putin keeps his word. So, nothing changed.
It is always dummy masses of us the People who believe in myths that we create by ourselves for ourselves.
Like the myth of “Hope and Change” and “Fundamental transformation of the United States of America in 4 years” that the obama honestly proclaimed, but we didn‘t pay attention and didn’t analyze what it means.
The same with Putin and Gorbachev’s support of that KGB officer with his Oath.
Remember how Bush (whom I voted twice for) found “a good soul” in eyes of Putin?
How naive, how American it was! And Russians are the same. Except for some (like myself, for instance. -:))
Crazy Times
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 12:12pmGood points….
Report Post »sandy21957
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 11:04pmPutin is old school KGB. He wants to do exactly what Lenin started and Stalin expanded. There is no other way for the Socialist/Communist model to function without massive corruption and wholesale slaughter and imprisonment. Oh, yeah, Ayers was all for that too. People need to wake up, we are in for a wild ride.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 11:28pmand I’m ashamed of Obama and his staff
Report Post »Tankertony
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 9:58pmSo a communist and a plutocrat walk into a bar……..
Report Post »db321
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 10:09pmWe know how you feel Mikail… We are ashamed and embarrassed of Obama.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 9:49pmHey, come on now. How bad could Putin be? After all, didn’t our former president look into his (Putin’s) eyes and give the guy a big Texas size thumbs up? What I see in Putin’s eyes is thuggery and EVIL.
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 10:42pmHave Putin and Prezero ever met?
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 5:48amWhen I look into his eyes I see a stone-cold killer.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 9:46pmCareful Mikail.. Putin could have you poisoned… he is one evil man! God help us!
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 9:44pmGorby, watch out. You are now in Puti Puut’s cross hairs.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 9:27pmGorby, for all his sins, is not a dumb man, who knew the west was destroying itself slowly, and we would come to the point we are now. I think he went kicking and screaming into what Russia is now, but he is not stupid, and in spite of his wicked ways, I believe he loves his country, and sees nothing good coming from this. He see’s Putin as an enemy of the Russian people. Maybe it’s not tooo late for him to help Russia. They are making as huge a mistake as any country tring to deal with Islam
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 10:54pm‘You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept communism outright, but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you’ll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won’t have to fight you. We’ll so weaken your economy until you’ll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.’ Kruschev
- ” we do not have to destroy America with Missiles, America will destroy itself from within ” ( Nikita Kruschev ) made in 1961
Report Post »bhohater
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 9:13pmHe’s never been the same since Reagan cleaned his clock.
Report Post »sndrman
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 9:27pmLOL lmao funniest thing i’ve heard in a long long time “Mr. WE COULD USE A MAN LIKE RONALD REAGAN AGAIN” Reagan one of my most most favored personal hero and a man i really really look up to….
Report Post »heyjim55
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 9:09pmGorby better watch what he says about Putin, not many people survive after they do.
Report Post »SFsuper49er
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 9:23pmDon’t think he cares at this point
Report Post »sandy21957
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 11:53pmHe’s quite calculating. He knows the price, he knows what secret sins he personally is accountable. I think this is the last efforts of an aging man to stand up for something right and atone for his past. He might be gambling on the safety of his celebrity, but that didn’t help a great many people. The Soviet power structure arrogantly killed them anyway.
Report Post »RightThinking1
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 9:05pmGorbie vs. Vlad. Interesting…..
Report Post »John 3:16
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 9:02pmWell, Mr. Gorbachev you again earn my respect and admiration for your Bravery. I hope this was one of the last things on your proverbial “bucket list”.. The Furor will be furious.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 9:35pmAmen.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 8:55pmGobachev is a NEW WORLD ORDER GLOBALIST!
HE IS YOUR ENEMY!!!!
STOP PRAISING HIM!!!
Report Post »John 3:16
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 9:07pmOBAMA is our enemy at this time. Nothing else matters!!!
Report Post »TRUTHandFREEDOM
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 9:15pmDidn’t he meet with environmentalist groups when he was visiting us in the past?
Report Post »futureglory
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 8:39pmThank you Mr. Gorbachev. It is good to know that not all Russian leaders are insane.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 8:53pmFormer Communist leader Mikhail Gorbachev told an audience at Lafayette College that the United States’ economic problems heralded the need for a new American “perestroika,” defined by a “new world order” and a system of “global governance”.
“Others, including myself, have spoken about a new world order, but we are still facing the problem of building such a world order…problems of the environment, of backwardness and poverty, food shortages…all because we do not have a system of global governance,” he said.
“We cannot leave things as they were before, when we are seeing that these protests are moving to even new countries, that almost all countries are now witnessing such protests, that the people want change,” he said. “As we are addressing these challenges, these problems raised by these protest movements, we will gradually find our way towards a new world order,” added Gorbachev.
THIS MAN IS A CERTIFIED LOONEY TOON NEW WORLD ORDER GLOBALIST!!!!
Stop praising him.
Report Post »bhohater
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 9:04pmThere’s a hidden message there somewhere. That blotch on his head looks like the state of Florida to me, has it always looked that way?
Report Post »Lather
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 8:35pmGorby Rocks!
Report Post »Bill from NJ
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 8:16pmMIKHAIL GORBACHEV: I‘M ’ASHAMED’ OF VLADIMIR PUTIN
Thats OK Mr. Gorbachev, I’m ashamed at obammy… so we’re even.
Report Post »junior1971
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 8:15pmAnother unstable leader with wmd’s. Perhaps he is setting the stage for lifetime appointments! Perhaps we can look forward to barry running again and again and again. How cool would that be?
Report Post »sndrman
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 9:30pmconstant state of this kinda economy
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 8:14pmGorby .. has some connections and high powered dealings in the U.S.
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/ans-cover-news111506.htm
“Presidio Partners
Report Post »Nancy Pelosi: One of Mikhail Gorbachev’s most useful idiots”
bhohater
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 9:09pmThe guy’s a commie to the core, but anyone who calls John McCain “nuts” can’t be all bad.
Report Post »stickman10
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 8:12pmWell, I’m putting Gorby in my “dead pool” for 2012. Not looking good for you this year.
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 8:02pmThere will be a “new Russia” when Putin’s back in power.
Report Post »bhohater
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 9:22pmThe only way to remain in power in Russia is do what Stalin did; keep your friends close but your enemies closer, then kill them all.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 7:51pmPutin’s never been out of power,Medvede is just a figure head taking orders from Putin.He’s an old school communist and longs for the old Soviet Union.Gorby might want to flee the country with all his criticism of Putin,he could have an accident you never know.
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 8:14pmThere’s some truth.
Report Post »kosovo
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 8:23pmI do believe Mr,gorbachev lives here in the states—not in mother russia.
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 10:51pmCorrect…..Putin has ran the show all along. He is as wicked as Stalin or any Russian leader from before.
Report Post »You see more deftness in the way people carry out their evil intentions these days. Its become an art in itself.
Look no further than Obama and how he portrayed himself as a unifier, while all along he was saying things to divide us with regards to race and income levels. Many are fools to not see it.
NOBALONEY
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 7:44pmCareful Gorbe, Czar Putin will send you to the Gulag in his new Russia.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 8:05pmOr just have him retire of a heart attack induced by lead poisoning to the head.
Report Post »ddg7
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 7:42pmGorbie has a death wish.
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