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Charles
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Gorbachov Boasts Of His Anti-Communist Crusade.
This article appeared in the 23rd February issue of Vanguard, newspaper of
the Communist Party Of Australia (Marxist-Leninist).
In a recent interview on Turkish radio, former USSR leader Mikhail
Gorbachov, admitted that his ambition when leader of the USSR "was to
liquidate communism". The transcript of the interview has appeared in the
latest edition of Northstar Compass published in Canada by the Organising
Committee for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People. We reproduce the
transcript below.
The final breakdown of socialism in the USSR and it's break up into
seperate republics has been a disaster for the people there. Plummeting
living standards, desperate poverty, massive unemployment, gangsterism and
the all-round social crisis have been the legacy of Gorbachov's grand
ambition - an ambition shared and sponsered by the western imperialist
powers, especially the United States.
Indeed the Gorbachov interview really confirms his role as a willing
accomplice of the big imperialist powers ; an unashamed apologist for them.
They show their gratitude by having Gorbachov trot around the world on
obscenely lucrative speaking tours.
" My ambition was to liquidate communism, the dicatatorship over all the
people. Supporting me and urging me on was my wife, who was of this opinion
long before I was.
" I knew that I could only do this if I was the leading functionary. In this
my wife urged me to climb to the top post.
" When I actually became acquainted with the West, my mind was made up
forever. I decided that I must destroy the whole apparatus of the CPSU and
the USSR.
" Also, I must do this in all of the other socialist countries.
" My ideal is the path of Social-Democracy. Only this system shall benefit
all the people. This quest I decided I must fulfil.
" I found friends that had the same thoughts as I in Yakovlev and
Shevernadze, they also deserve to be thanked for the break-up of the USSR
and the defeat of communism.
" A world without communism is going to be much better. After the year 2000
the world will be much better because it will develop and prosper.
" But there are countries that will have to try and struggle against this.
China is one.
" I was in Beijing during the time of the protests at Tianamen Square, where
I really thought that communism in China was going to crash. I sternly
demanded of the Chinese leaders that I be allowed to speak to the
protesters, but they did not allow me to do so.
" If communism were to fall in China all the world would be better off and
on the the road to peace.
" I wanted to save the USSR but only under the rule of social-democracy.
This I could not do. Yeltsin wanted power, he knew nothing about democracy
or what I intended to do. We wanted the democratic USSR to have rights and
freedom.
" When Yeltsin broke up the USSR, and at that time I was not in the Kremlin,
all the newspaper reporters asked me if I would cry. I did not cry because I
had managed to destroy communism in the USSR as well as in the other
European socialist countries.
" I did not cry because I knew I had fulfilled my main aim - the defeat of
communism in Europe.
" But you must also know that communism must be defeated in Asia too to make
the transition to democracy and freedom quicker throughout the whole world.
" The liquidation of the USSR is not beneficial to the United States since
they now have no mighty democratic country (the former USSR) which I wanted
to call the Union of Independent Soveriegn Republics. I could not accomplish
all of this.
" All the small countries now are thanking the United States for the help. I
wanted the US and the former USSR to be partners without the scourge of
communism; these could have been the ruling countries of the world.
" The road towards democracy will be a long one, but it is coming very
quickly. The whole world must now defeat the last remnants of communism!"
reproduced from the "New Worker" issue 1090, 3/3/2000.
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