In the West you’d think a saint had died this week. But on the Russian street Gorbachev is hated. He’s the traitor who restored capitalism and broke up the USSR for the benefit of the Western corporations and the black-marketeers who emerged from the shadows to become the oligarchs that plunder the country today. He achieved nothing apart from bringing unemployment and poverty back to what was once the Soviet Union.
Gorbachev didn’t come from nowhere. He wormed his way to the top of the Communist Party posing as a “reformer” who became the idol of the Eurocommunists in Britain and the rest of Western Europe.
In fact the basis of post-war revisionism was laid down at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The vicious attack on Stalin by Nikita Krushchev had two main effects within the world communist movement. In the West it opened the door to the fallacy of Trotskyism, which until then, had been confined to small groups drawn from the middle strata.
In the East the loss of confidence in the masses led to the rejection of the leading role of the working class. This created a climate of compromise and defeat and led to the conditions which counter-revolutionary traitors successfully exploited in the end.
In the international communist movement it reinforced the drift towards social-democratic strategies and the abandonment of Marxist-Leninist thinking.
They say it’s wrong to speak ill of the dead. But, as Russian communist leader Gennady Zyuganov says, that doesn’t apply to major politicians. “ I believe that Gorbachev was one of those rulers in the thousand-year history of Russia, who brought not only the peoples of our country, but also all allies and friends, absolute misfortune, grief and misfortune” he said. ”I consider it a great tragedy that he came to the crucible of political power...”
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