Posted on 3/2/2006, 10:44:52 PM by Aussie Dasher
FORMER Soviet leader and Nobel peace prize laureate Mikhail Gorbachev has turned 75, bitter that the end of the Cold War has left the United States with what he called a "superiority complex".
"It would be in everyone's interest if that big country America recovered from that disease," he said.
Mr Gorbachev, who launched the democratic and economic reforms that ultimately led to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, described the end of the Cold War as a gift that the United States has squandered.
He also denounced growing Russophobia, saying "some in the West would like to see Russia strangled".
"Russia, with its enormous intellectual and military potential, and control of 42 per cent of the world's natural reserves, elicits fear in the West, and even our friends today fear a renaissance of the Russian empire," he said.
The collapse of the Soviet Union, which dented national prestige, left Mr Gorbachev unpopular at home, with many considering that he served as a Trojan horse for the West.
That's only because we really are better than everybody else.
Shut up Gorbachev, you're still a Commie.
Mister Bozo. Tear down that wall!
That may be difficult to pull off. I understand Russia's population is decreasing and their lifespans shortening.
Go preach to yourself.
Giving reactors to Iran, UN oil for food fraud, screwing up oil markets, keeping Iran from getting sactions from the Security Council ... Maybe spanked instead if strangled.
Are f****n kidding me? He was trying to save the Soviet Union!
From CIA world factbook
GDP (official rate)
Russia 740.7 Billion with a B
US 12,770 Billion with a B
2005 Estimate
Gorby, talk to the hand!
You lost me
If Gorbachev could have kept the Soviet Union the way it was under Brezhnev, he would have done so. Reagan and Thatcher's policies forced his hand.
"some in the West would like to see Russia strangled"
No, nobody want to stangle Russia, just all the commies for the tens of millions they helped murder. And this is not murder; it's justice I'm talking about.
Message to Mikhail Sergeyevich:
Hey, loser! Your sh!t's over!
And the New Russia is doing a pretty good job of strangling itself. Misha! How does the world's highest abortion rate grab ya?
Blame those clever American imperialist capitalist warmongers!
The commies at the MSM will never forgive him for closing down the USSR.
the US chides Gorby for being a loser with puddin' on his head :)
He also denounced growing Russophobia, saying "some in the West would like to see Russia strangled".
He sounds like certain Freepers.
And Gorby certainly made a contribution to that number on his watch.
It's the system that is better and you just happened to be lucky enough to be born into it. Your comment basically reinforces his claim. Arrogance is greatest before a fall. Perhaps you should try and stay humble as God would have you.
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