There is a Chinese saying called "three years old to see small, seven years old to see old", this sentence is to say that from the psychological characteristics and personality tendencies of 3-year-old children, we can see the psychology and personality of this child in adolescence. From the 7-year-old child, you can see his career after middle age. Of course, this is not absolute, but being stimulated by the outside world as a child does have a great impact on life.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, many people were studying this history and finding its causes. In fact, neither Russia nor the United States understood why the Soviet Union collapsed so quickly. In fact, there are many key figures that are not known, but some characters are ignored.
We all think that Gorbachev played a key role in the process of overthrowing the Soviet Union, and that Gorbachev's overthrow of the Soviet Union was fooled by Western countries in the later period, which made Gorbachev yearn for the institutional life of Western countries, began to "new thinking", and gradually pushed the Soviet Union into an irreversible situation. And Yeltsin, both Gorbachev and Yeltsin, they were all members of the "sixties" of the Soviet Union, a generation worth pondering in the Soviet Union. From an early age, they had sown dissatisfaction with the Soviet Union.
We often say that the collapse of the Soviet Union had the external role of the disintegration of the West, such as Dulles's American Cold War strategy, but there is one person who should not be ignored, who is three years older than Gorbachev and should be a person of the same age, and he is Zbignev Kazimirz Brzezinski. A Polish Jew, he is also a well-known "strategic master" in the United States.
Gorbachev and Brzezins have little to do with each other, so why put these two people together? Because both of them had been stimulated as children, and after the stimulation, they were determined to have a goal: to bring down the Soviet Union.
01 The second generation of officials and rural dolls
Gorbachev was the supreme leader of the Soviet Union and later became president of the Soviet Union, a well-known head of state. Brzezinski, on the other hand, was a lifelong American man, but he could never become president. Because the U.S. Constitution stipulates that immigrants born in foreign countries cannot become presidents except for the next generation. But Brzezinski was a well-known official, much stronger than Gorbachev.
First, let's talk about Brzezinski. Brzezinski was born on March 28, 1928, to a family of diplomats in Warsaw, Poland. His father was a Polish diplomat, and although he was not rich or noble, he was also a family of officials.
When Brzezinski was 10 years old, his father went to Canada as a diplomat, and he followed him.
What is the concept of 10 years old?
In such high-ranking families, the education and experience received are absolutely different from ordinary, and the concept of right and wrong is planted in the young mind. At that time, Poland had not yet been invaded by the Soviet Union and belonged to the Western camp.
Secondly, let's talk about Gorbachev, 3 years after Brzezinski was born, Gorbachev was born in a village in Privorno County in the steppes of southern Russia. His father was a farmer. Gorbachev was the second oldest, and soon after his birth, he caught up with the famine in the Soviet Union.
The year of Gorbachev's birth was also a turbulent year in the Soviet Union, when Stalin asked peasants throughout the country to join the collective farms. There were Soviet peasants who resisted this measure, but whoever resisted was transported to Siberia for labor reform. Gorbachev's grandfather was one of those who were transformed. Strictly speaking, Gorbachev should be a descendant of a prisoner of labor. In the Soviet Union, where political censorship was strict, there was no record of his grandfather in Gorbachev's archives, and the step-by-step climb to the top of the Soviet Union still seems to be a mystery.
Gorbachev's grandfather had this experience of suffering, and he would not fail to instill it in Gorbachev, which also left a "seed" in the heart of young Gorbachev.
02 Stimulate different hatreds
When World War II broke out in 1939, the Soviet Union sent troops to partition Poland. When the news reached Canada, the 11-year-old Brzezinski developed a hatred for the Soviet Union.
Similarly, in 1939, 8-year-old Gorbachev, who was raised by his grandfather, became dissatisfied with Soviet policies. Despite his young age, Gorbachev hated the injustices of Soviet policy against his grandfather and sent him to Siberia for labor reform.
Why was Gorbachev's grandfather sent to a labor camp? Because this information has not been made public, but from the relevant information, it is alleged that Gorbachev's grandfather hid grain at that time, and was reported by neighbors. But Gorbachev's grandfather was re-educated through labor for 9 years, and when he returned, Gorbachev had already understood things.
Comparing Brzezinski and Gorbachev, one is the hatred of the homeland, which is a great hatred. Although Brzezinski was Jewish, and in World War II, Poland's approach to Jews was a poster child, but the Occupation of Poland by the Soviet Union and Germany made not only Polish Jews hate the Soviet Union, but also Poles.
Compared with Brzezinski, Gorbachev's hatred is a kind of affectionate hatred. It was Soviet policy that was unfair to his family and made him dissatisfied. After all, the two hated different things, but they hated the Soviet Union. Brzezinski, who has lived in the West for a long time, will carry this hatred into future ideals, which actually proves that Brzezinski has indeed taken this path.
Gorbachev lived in the Soviet Union and was also his own home country. Although he had dissatisfaction in his heart, in the face of the Soviet environment, he could only choose to acquiesce, and if Gorbachev expressed dissatisfaction, he would not move forward. The reason why Gorbachev was able to reach the top was that patience was his character.
03 The starting point is the same as the goal
After World War II, Poland became a satellite state of the Soviet Union, and Brzezinski deepened his hatred for the Soviet Union. In 1949, at the age of 21, Brzezinski was admitted to the Department of Economics and Politics at McGill University in Canada. Just look at this major, but it's not just about economics, it's about politics. Because Brzezinski began to attack the "enemy" Soviet target.
What is Gorbachev doing at the age of 21?
Gorbachev experienced a German invasion when he was 11 years old, but this invasion did not impress Gorbachev very much. However, his brother was killed in the Battle of Kursk in 1943. His father also joined the army and fought with the Soviets to Poland, where he was wounded and returned home. Gorbachev remembered this fondly. Of course, these two things are also its political capital. Grandfather's experience of labor reform is negligible.
In 1950, Gorbachev went to moscow University to study law. This major is a jack-of-all-trades major, but not a political major. But in Gorbachev's later new thinking, his legal profession became typical of Western-style democracy. Think that everything in the Soviet Union is wrong, everything is good in the West.
At the age of 21, Gorbachev joined the CPSU. But his accession was also doomed to the collapse of the Soviet Union in the future. Because there was an undetermined candidate at the future top of the Soviet Union.
Comparing the experiences of Gorbachev and Brzezinski, the two lived in different environments and decided different careers in the future. From elementary school to university, Brzezinski had already laid the foundation for the determination and goal of attacking the Soviet Union. At this time, Gorbachev's goal was only to become an official, and only by being an official could he realize his childhood dissatisfaction.
Next, let's talk about how the Two Bogos joined forces to collapse the Soviet Union.
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