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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev during a celebration in the Kremlin on June 12, 2016
The statue of the former leader of the Soviet Union, Mr. Mikhail Gorbachev was inaugurated in the city of Rosslau, state of Saxony-Anhalt on the 30th anniversary of the reunification of Germany.
Gorbachev, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and president of the last Soviet Union (1990-91) received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to neutralize the Cold War in Europe.
In front of the Rosslau Town Hall a real life statue of Mr. Gorbachev was erected by the German sculptor Bernd Gobel.
The money for the statue is donated by the local population, according to the Russian news agency TASS and German radio stations.
The Rosslau administration said Gorbachev was credited with “facilitating the reform of ‘perestroika and glasnost’ and allowing the peaceful revolution in Germany to take place in 1989, which led to German reunification.”
Treason or meritorious?
Currently, Vietnam still has at least two contradictory views on Mikhail Gorbachev.
Some circles with experience in the former Soviet Union and the Eastern European bloc often share popular views in Europe appreciating Gorbachev’s role in helping the continent end the Cold War.
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But the official position of the Communist Party of Vietnam was published on the radio run by this party, calling it a “traitor”.
In October 2017, on the occasion of an event commemorating Russia’s October Revolution (1917-2017) in Hanoi, a VCP theorist, Mr. Ta Ngoc Tan, in his speech broadcast on VTV1, called Mr. Gorbachov as “a traitor to the Party, to liquidate the great Soviet-Soviet regime.”
In fact, when he came to power, Gorbachev found the Soviet Union too long economically and technologically stagnant and believed that the democratization of Soviet society was a way to renew the spirit of socialist citizenship. pave the way for highly contradictory forces to erupt.
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The Berlin Wall, 1986: Communists in East Germany consider people fleeing to the West as criminals
It was Russia that wanted to leave the Soviet Union and the leaders of the Russian Communist Party, Boris Yeltsin and the leaders of the Russian-speaking European republics, Ukraine and Belarus decided to dissolve the Soviet Union after seven decades of existence.
In early 1991, Gorbachev opened a referendum on March 17 to save the Soviet Union after Russia, a key member, unilaterally declared its independence in June 1990.
Ukraine, Belarus, the larger countries of Kazakhstan had different problems, and the three Baltic republics wanted to reposition themselves.
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Protest for reform in Leipzig on November 18, 1989 with the attendance of tens of thousands of people
The only referendum in Soviet history has questions
Do you consider it necessary to maintain the USSR as an innovative federal institution of equal republics to guarantee the freedom of individuals, regardless of the nation? “
About 113 million voters agreed to do so, but the trend toward separatism has not abated.
In fact, after Russia was divided under the ambitious Russian Communist Party secretary Boris Yeltsin, the Soviet Union remained in the remaining 14 countries.
At that time, as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev did not have much practical power.
The conservative coup of the Soviet army and security in August 1991, although it failed, destroyed the last part of the credibility of the Union regime.
On December 26, 1991, the leaders of the three republics Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus unanimously announced the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
They only admitted the fact that after the August coup there were only two remaining Soviet agencies: the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Public Security.
In the international arena, the Republic of Russia assumed the position of the Soviet Union in the UN and the atomic arsenal and Ukraine and Belarus committed to deliver nuclear warheads to Russia.
