Here are some of the kinds of things this traitor dared to say openly once the crime was committed:
If you take my statements, then you will realize that my political sympathies belong to Social Democracy and the idea of a welfare state on the lines of the Federal Republic of Germany. […] With a fundamental commitment to liberalism, the German state actively intervenes in social life and in the economy, I think that’s right.
Even among the conservatives there are people who should be taken seriously and who do not shirk responsibility for the country. There is a wide spectrum to draw on.
Don’t let the surface fool you. There are demagogic attacks from both the extreme right and the extreme left, but neither one nor the other can mobilize real forces on a large scale. The center must prevail here.
Note how he refers to himself in the third person:
And Gorbachev had to steer the ship of perestroika through the cliffs. It was not yet possible to announce things for which the people were not yet ready. […] One had to be patient until the party bureaucracy was so disempowered that it could no longer turn back the wheel of history.
Then he spews a bunch of crap about “Stalin’s atrocities”, repeats a few of the usual anti-communist myths relating to WW2, and he rehashes a Khrushchevite lie about the start of the war. Too boring to quote, we’ve heard this stuff a thousand times.
In general he peddles the same liberal bullshit talking points about the USSR:
Anyone who believes that they can get the problems under control by returning to totalitarianism or by using authoritarian power, like some in our leadership, is making a dangerous misjudgment.
The former Soviet Union is dead and there is no point in trying to revive it.
About Russians left behind in the other republics and facing persecution:
I categorically rule out the use of force to protect Russian citizens […]
He is so far removed from reality he thinks he can compare himself to Deng Xiaoping:
I could of course take on a political function. But it also works without an official office, as you can see with China’s Deng Xiaoping. He exerts his influence without a leadership position. If there were signals from society that Gorbachev should take on greater responsibility, I would not evade it.
And of course this gem: The Gorbachev era is not over, it is only just beginning. Lol.
Reactionary peasantry strikes again. People wonder why Deng had to break up the peasantry’s power in China, this is it. This shit right here is why he needed to do things like dismantling the old commune system and ending the iron rice bowl. If he didn’t, reactionary trash like this would’ve taken over China just like the USSR. Gorbachev, Kruschev, and Yeltsin all came from peasant backgrounds. Its not a coincidence that some of the worst politicians in Soviet history rose from that class. He saw the peasantry’s rising power and dissolved that class, making them into proletarians.