How terrible are people who look up to the West?
Gorbachev's death on August 30 was the one who had left the world's largest power to fall apart overnight, without going through war or a coup d'état, and as supreme leader he failed to reverse the situation, but worsened it further, and finally gave up the initiative, depriving the Soviet organization of leadership, and was taken advantage of by careerists to take the opportunity to dismember the Soviet Union.
Ironically, what he did was very much in line with the expectations of the Western world and was highly appreciated by the Western world.
In 1990, Soviet President Mikhail Mikhail Gorbachev held up a painting that made then-U.S. President George W. Bush laugh. Flattery was seen in Goe's eyes
On October 15, 1990, they were elated and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Gorbachev, and in the face of such a high level of "encouragement", did Gorbachev have the impulse in his heart to quickly end the Soviet problem? We don't know, but just one year later, on December 25, 1991, the Soviet Union announced its dissolution, and the world's largest power will never return!
As the Western world had hoped, the Soviet Union was dismembered.
Some praised him, many scolded him, and now his death has ended his "great achievement" life.
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres tweeted: "Gore is a unique statesman" and that "the world has lost an outstanding global leader, a committed multilateralist and a tireless advocate of peace." He said he "changed the course of history."
European Commission President von der Leyen believes that he played a decisive role in ending the Cold War and tearing down the Iron Curtain, opening the way for a free Europe...
All walks of life in Europe and the United States did not hesitate to use all kinds of praise for his death, but they did not know that the praise of the enemy was the greatest insult to himself!
Today, Russia and Ukraine, two countries that separated from the Soviet Union, are at war. Their civilian population is suffering from war, prices are soaring, bullets, shells, including assassinations, which claim countless lives every day, and more hatred is carved into each other, and this hatred between nations and ethnic groups will not be resolved for many years to come.
Commenting on the war, Putin said: "The danger is increasing every day, it is Russia's pre-emptive counterattack against aggression, it is the forced, timely and only correct decision of a sovereign state with strong independence." ”
It was the collapse of the Soviet Union that led NATO, led by the United States, began a journey of world hegemony, even though Russia repeatedly claimed to join NATO, but it was not accepted by its former opponents, their goal was very simple, that is, to completely dismember Russia and solve this problem, and Ukraine played a pioneering role in it.
These are the bitter fruits of the collapse of the Soviet Union thirty years ago, and they are still fermenting.
When Reagan came to power, Gorbachev met a formidable opponent
During the Brezhnev era, the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons once crushed the United States, and its military power developed to its peak, becoming the world's number one military power. Although its focus is excessively inclined to the military and ignores the construction of the people's livelihood economy, at this time, some of the main economic indicators of the Soviet Union such as oil and gas, cement, steel, fertilizers and other more than 20 kinds of industrial products have become the world's first.
In 1981, Reagan, who had served two terms as chairman of the Film Actors Association and chairman of the Film Industry Committee, was elected as the 49th president of the United States, and after a long battle in the field of art and thought, he quickly sniffed the problems of the Soviet Union, and within two days of taking office, he summoned the director of intelligence to plan and decentralize the intelligence collection work against the Soviet Union.
A year later, Reagan signed a number of policy documents against the Soviet Union, including:
1. In view of the situation that oil production became the lifeblood of the Soviet economy, saudi Arabia was co-opted, oil production was expanded, and oil prices were suppressed. Saudi oil production soared from 2 million barrels per day to 9 million barrels, and international oil prices fell from $35 a barrel to a minimum of less than $8. At that time, the Soviet Union's external debt was as high as $120 billion, and low oil prices led the Soviet Union into economic difficulties
2. The use of financial instruments depreciated the dollar, and the dollar reserves in the hands of the Soviet Union depreciated rapidly and sharply.
3. Vigorously carry out public opinion propaganda and cultural implantation, and attract the good feelings and yearning of young people in the Soviet Union with democratic and free discourse.
4. Support and cultivate the opposition and propaganda tongue to compete for the space of public opinion.
5. An arms race with the Soviet Union made the Soviet economy worse.
6. With economic assistance and freedom promotion measures, the peripheral countries of the Soviet Union were encouraged to break away from the Soviet camp and weaken the power of the Soviet Union.
7. Through military assistance, economic and technical assistance in the Third World countries to fight the Soviet Union, while increasing Afghan military aid, dragging the Soviet army into the quagmire of war.
The above various means made the Soviet Union difficult at home and abroad, and had to shift from global hegemony to total contraction.
Let's look at the predicament of the disintegration of the former Soviet Union:
In order to compete with the United States for the so-called world's first indicators, the Soviet authorities did not hesitate to invest in all kinds, but ignored the construction of people's livelihood, on the one hand, a large number of poor citizens, on the other hand, seriously corrupt officials and magnates, who sat on privileged interests and ignored the voice of the masses.
Gross national product is only one-fifth to one-sixth of that of the United States, per capita consumption has fallen to the lower and lower levels of the world, and one-third of people are below the official poverty line, and daily necessities are scarce.
In the 1960s, the Soviet Union still had a large amount of grain to export, in order to reduce agricultural expenditure, gradually embarked on the evil road of food imports instead of self-sufficiency, from 2.2 million tons in the 70s to 46 million tons in 1984, becoming the world's largest grain importer at that time, and had to spend a lot of foreign exchange and even borrow foreign debt to buy grain every year.
By 1990, almost all of the Soviet Union's oil exports were being used to pay off debt and interest.
They did not pay enough attention to the forces and mouthpieces supported by the West, and they looked up to the West and allowed these experts, scholars, and propaganda mouthpieces to take turns to appear, go all out to propagate the superiority of the West, belittle their own nation, heroes, beliefs, and various policies, and gradually control the initiative of public opinion.
Although Gorbachev chose reform after coming to power, he failed to achieve the goal of reform, but was interfered with by his opponents, making himself a victim of the Western "political correctness" discourse.
The failure of the Soviet authorities was a failure of the level of governance, a failure of internal superiority and external illusions, and a failure to lose the hearts and minds of the people.
Why did someone scold Gorbachev?
In addition to the collapse of the Soviet Union because Gorbachev did not keep his post, there was another important reason, the life of a large number of people after the collapse of the Soviet Union fell into an extremely difficult and tragic situation.
In the early days of disintegration, while the masses were still gleefully celebrating that they could get a better life and divide up state assets, an economic melon was coming at their heads.
The ruble began to depreciate sharply, and before the dissolution one could buy a car ruble, only one pack of rags could be bought after the dissolution, and a large number of residents went bankrupt, and the poor people had to go out with furniture or other items in exchange for bread. Russia's productivity is only half of the original, the living standards of the people are only one-third of the original, the dissolution countries are mostly unstable, corrupt and subject to the West, and 6 of the 11 CIS countries are at war.
More than a decade later, in 2004, Russia's economy was still only one-tenth of what it had been in the Soviet Union, no different from the Third World countries, with only the military still being praised. But in the recent Russian-Ukrainian conflict, its military strength has also been torn off its veil of weakness.
Western countries took advantage of the collapse of the Soviet Union to brandish the dollar, made large-scale purchases in the Soviet Union, and plundered Soviet assets, and the disintegration of the Soviet Union became a carnival feast of dollar capital.
Gorbachev, who looked up to the West, played a major role in this political tragedy!
Gorbachev was promoted to member of the Soviet Organization (Central Committee) in October 1980 and served as the supreme leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991, under whose leadership the Soviet Union could not emerge from the quagmire of decline, but deteriorated further.
He opened the way with "democratic and humane" rhetoric, brandished the ideological stick of "the interests of all mankind above all else", paralyzed and guided the members of the organization, denied the necessity of the leadership of the Soviet organization, abolished martial arts, and shifted the focus of economic reform to another direction, implemented a policy of pluralism and multi-organization, made the opposition forces rise rapidly, the economy was ineffective but the infighting continued, and finally succeeded in handing over power to the ambitionists who shouted Western slogans.
People and countries who have lost their independent personality and national character are so stupid that they will abolish their martial arts because of some of the words of their opponents. The tragedy of the Soviet Union is also like a mirror, allowing us to see the strength of our opponents and the cunning of our means, to see the threats and risks we face inside and outside, and to keep us vigilant at all times.
Lao Mei is repeating the same trick as it did against the Soviet Union.
The mainland has become stronger because of reform and opening up, and now it is the world's second largest economy and the only competitor facing the United States in the world. The world factory is the signboard of our development, and now Laos and the United States have signed a number of policy documents to force foreign-funded enterprises to move out, and have vigorously suppressed the mainland's scientific and technological development, attacked the mainland in the financial field, compressed the mainland's activity space in the international community, and supported spokesmen internally in an attempt to reverse the situation.
They have vilified our image through movies, television, cartoons, and public knowledge texts, suppressed national confidence, publicized their superiority, and vigorously used various means on young people, including "special" teaching materials, toxic extracurricular books, etc. If they are not corrected, when these teenagers grow up, they will be the next Gorbachev creeping on the ground looking up to the West, cultivating the personality confidence and national self-confidence of young people, acknowledging the faces of opponents, and cutting off their magic hand to teenagers.
We must be vigilant against the tricks of hostile forces, cherish the hard-won excellent situation, have no illusions about the outside world, seek peace with struggle, attach importance to the interests of the masses at home, improve the people's living standards, develop science and technology, and strive to raise the level of production.
I believe that the mainland will never repeat the mistakes of the Soviet Union, and our country has confidence and ability to fight the battle of rejuvenation.