Why should Gorbachev’s bitch be judged? Deputies call for Gorbachev to be tried for the collapse of the USSR

Illustration copyright AP Image caption Gorbachev considers calls from deputies to check the events of 1991 unfounded

Deputies of United Russia, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the Liberal Democratic Party sent a request to the Prosecutor General's Office demanding that they check the events that took place during the collapse of the USSR. Parliamentarians demand the initiation of criminal cases, including against USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev, for making decisions aimed at eliminating the state.

The first and last president of the USSR called this stupidity and called for the dissolution of the State Duma.

As the initiator of the check, United Russia member Evgeny Fedorov, told the BBC Russian Service, there is an indisputable fact of violation of the legislation of the Soviet Union: in his opinion, Gorbachev deliberately liquidated the USSR by creating unconstitutional bodies such as the State Council.

A trial for the sake of Russia's legitimacy?

“The Soviet Union has a legal successor - Russia, and it must conduct an investigation into these facts of violation of the law, which led to dire consequences, as the President [Putin] said, to a geopolitical catastrophe. If we are investigating the theft of a bag of potatoes, then certainly we should investigate these kinds of large-scale crimes and make their legal and legal assessment,” Fedorov asserts.

The initiative of the deputies is largely caused by the events in Ukraine - as Fedorov told the BBC, he sees a connection between the “impunity of 1991” and the “coup” in Ukraine in 2014. Fedorov is convinced that such criminal prosecution will help Russian society protect itself from the threats of the “fifth column” and those whom he, following President Putin, calls national traitors.

According to a member of the political council of United Russia, if the trial of those responsible for the collapse of the USSR takes place, this will help strengthen the sovereignty of Russia, since the current state institutions of the Russian Federation, created as a result of the coup d'etat, as Yevgeny Fedorov says, are not sufficiently legitimate and sovereign.

"These people have no conscience"

Of course, no one will persecute an elderly person over 80 years old for humanistic reasons, but this does not interfere with the political assessment of the activities of the last Soviet leadership Dmitry Andreev, political scientist

Mikhail Gorbachev, who is now in Moscow, called calls by State Duma deputies to try him for the collapse of the country as complete stupidity and a desire for personal PR.

“The call is completely ill-conceived and, from the point of view of historical facts, absolutely unfounded,” Gorbachev told Interfax. “And the fact that I am disturbing someone is evidenced by the fact that over the past 20 days it has been reported several times that I have already died. Conscience "These people don't. I, of course, don't react to such statements, so I take care of my business and my health."

The ex-president called in response to dissolve the current State Duma, if it has already decided all its affairs in the present and taken up the past, the Russian News Service reports.

Gorbachev is not the only one who could face charges. Among other “those responsible for the collapse of the USSR,” deputy Yevgeny Fedorov also names Chairman of the Supreme Council Anatoly Lukyanov.

“Lukyanov was supposed to, was obliged to hold a meeting of the congress, to elect a new president in the event of Gorbachev’s resignation, but he did not do this. It’s not only Gorbachev. We ask that a criminal case be opened regarding the fact, in which Gorbachev plays, of course, the most important role, but not only him,” the United Russia deputy said in an interview with bbcrussian.com.

The official reason for the collapse of the USSR is often cited as the Belovezhsky Accords, signed on December 8, 1991 by the heads of the RSFSR, Ukraine and Belarus. However, USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned only after the presidents of eight more USSR republics - Transcaucasian and Central Asian - signed the Alma-Ata Declaration on December 21 on the creation of the CIS instead of the Soviet Union. Under this declaration, in addition to the signatures of Boris Yeltsin, Leonid Kravchuk and Stanislav Shushkevich, there are, among others, the signatures of Nursultan Nazarbayev, Islam Karimov, Saparmurat Niyazov.

On December 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev, in a televised address to the nation, announced the termination of his activities as President of the USSR, explaining this by his categorical disagreement with the decision of the Soviet republics to create the CIS.

Crimea effect

Political scientist Dmitry Oreshkin is convinced that the Soviet Union, which united regions that were too different culturally and economically, collapsed for objective reasons, and Gorbachev, on the contrary, tried to preserve it to the last. Oreshkin explains the quite predictable, in his opinion, initiative of parliamentarians by the search for enemies both outside and inside the country.

“We need to find the guilty. This is the Stalinist model of management, when the government takes destructive steps, such as collectivization or mass repressions. Gorbachev, probably, seemed to someone a good figure in order to concentrate this negative energy on him, and to show that such people destroyed the Soviet Union, and we will not allow the enemies who surround us to destroy Russia,” Oreshkin told the BBC Russian Service.

Candidate of Historical Sciences, political scientist Dmitry Andreev believes that such calls from parliamentarians cannot have any prospects from a legal point of view, because it is impossible to convincingly prove the guilt of the first and last president of the USSR in the collapse.

“Of course, no one will persecute an elderly person who is over 80 years old, for humanistic reasons, but this does not interfere with the political assessment of the activities of the last Soviet leadership. Until now, Gorbachev remained a “sacred cow,” Andreev said in an interview with the Russian Service of Bi- BBC

According to the expert, the question of how legitimate the events of 1991 were is not least caused by the recent annexation of Crimea to Russia.

“For the first time, the internal political borders of the post-Soviet space are changing in a large-scale manner in favor of the Russian Federation. There was Abkhazia, there was South Ossetia, but they remain independent, unrecognized states, and here at the official level we have annexed the entire region of Ukraine. In this situation, the political agenda Today the question again arises about how legitimate the events of 1991 were. Such a request is clearly not the last,” political scientist Andreev is convinced.

Drug dealer Gorbachev, the Stavropol case and a dozen high-ranking corpses

Professor, Doctor of Political Sciences writes about Gorbachev’s activities and his rise to power in his article “General Liquidator of the USSR M. Gorbachev” Panarin Igor Nikolaevich:

“The main role in the collapse of the USSR was played by Stavropol Judas M. Gorbachev, who was brought to power in the USSR with the help of. During the 6 years of his leadership of the USSR, external debt increased by 5.5 times, and the gold reserves decreased by 11 times. The USSR made unilateral military-political concessions. caused the maximum damage to his Fatherland in the history of the country. Not in any country in the world never there was no such leader. Therefore, a Public Tribunal over Judas is needed to identify the reasons that contributed to his rise to power and destructive anti-state activities...”

"When WE We received information about the upcoming death of the Soviet leader (it was about Yu.V. Andropov), then we thought about the possible coming to power with our help of a person, thanks to whom we can realize our intentions. This was the assessment of my experts (and I always formed a very qualified group of experts on the Soviet Union and, as necessary, contributed to additional emigration of the necessary specialists from the USSR). This man was, who was characterized by experts as a careless, suggestible and very ambitious person. He had good relationships with the majority of the Soviet political elite, and therefore his coming to power with our help was possible..." Margaret Thatcher

At the very least, Gorbachev’s anti-Soviet activities began immediately after coming to power, which indicates his preliminary “preparation.” The Gorbachev couple traveled around the world surprisingly often. While still the first secretary of one of the largest regions of Russia, Stavropol, and a member of the CPSU Central Committee in September 1971, the Gorbachev couple visited Italy, allegedly at the invitation of the Italian communists. Based on the results of the Gorbachevs’ trip to Italy, their psychological portraits were probably compiled. They were clarified during Gorbachev’s trip at the head of the party delegation in 1972 to Belgium. Probably, Mikhail Sergeevich was not deprived of attention during his trips to (1975) and during France(1976).

But Western experts could gather the richest information harvest in September 1977 during the Gorbachev couple’s trip to France. They came there on vacation at the invitation of the French communists. Then, in Western special laboratories, psychologists, psychiatrists, anthropologists and other specialists in human souls, based on this information, tried to recognize the character of the Gorbachevs and their vulnerabilities.

Today, M. Gorbachev is a wealthy man, to put it mildly, having not only royalties for his memoirs in the form of bribes from owners from, he has real estate in Europe and beyond. This is a topic for another discussion.

I remember one detail: it did not escape the observant eye of the director that during the parade on Red Square on May 9, 2016, Mikhail Gorbachev was also there. But Vladimir Putin did not come up to greet him either when he left the Kremlin to the square, or when he returned back to the Kremlin after the parade. On the presidential plane, Stone asked Vladimir Putin: why didn’t he say hello to Gorbachev? “I didn’t notice,” the president replied. “But you don’t see him?” - the director insisted. "But why? “I invite him to the Kremlin for the holidays,” the president replied. But Stone continued to insist: “But you’re not talking to him?”

The director’s insistence is understandable: Vladimir Putin called the collapse of the USSR “the largest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.” Gorbachev always blamed the participants in the Belovezhskaya Accords for the collapse of the USSR, who, in his words, “were guided by personal ambitions and a thirst for power.” And he always avoided answering the question about his responsibility.

The director wanted to understand why Putin dislikes Gorbachev. And he achieved his goal: in the film, Vladimir Putin pointed out Gorbachev’s main mistake - the lack of guarantees on paper of NATO’s non-expansion to the East when concluding relevant agreements with Western countries. “This was not recorded on paper. This is a mistake, but on Gorbachev’s part. In politics you need to fix things. Even fixed things are often violated. He just talked and decided that it was all over. This is not so,” says the Russian President.

Mikhail Gorbachev responded to the president with the same response to criticism in the Oliver Stone film. In an interview with Interfax, the ex-president said: “As for Gorbachev’s “mistake,” in those conditions it was legally impossible to even discuss such an issue. Until July 1991, there were two military-political blocs - NATO and the Warsaw Pact Organization. The member countries of the ATS did not raise this issue.”

This is not the first time Vladimir Putin has raised the issue of Gorbachev’s “strange” behavior during negotiations on the unification of the two Germanys. In the book First Person (2000), he refers to a conversation with former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger about Gorbachev's policies: “I believed that the Soviet Union should not leave Eastern Europe so quickly. We were changing the balance of the world very quickly, and this could lead to undesirable consequences. And now they blame me for this... To be honest, I still don’t understand why Gorbachev did this?” And the Russian President concludes: “Kissinger was right. We would have avoided a lot of problems if there had not been such a hasty flight.”

It is worth reminding the forgotten Gorbachev that at the end of May 1990, during a visit to the United States, he agreed with the American proposal that a united Germany should decide for itself whether to be in NATO or not.

Frightened by this statement, Margaret Thatcher urgently flew to Moscow to persuade Gorbachev not to do this. She told him that "no reasonable person could fail to feel uneasy at the prospect of a vast united German power in the heart of Europe." Thatcher was afraid of a sharp strengthening of Germany's position in Europe and was ready to push the Kremlin to trade with Germany on the issue of unification.

But Gorbachev did not listen to the words of the British Prime Minister at that time. But then the possibility of great bargaining opened up around the issue of the peaceful unification of Germany. And in such a deal, it was quite appropriate to discuss both the neutral status of a united Germany with its withdrawal from NATO, and the written obligations of the military bloc about not expanding to the East. But already in July 1990, during Gorbachev’s meeting with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl at the government dacha in Arkhyz (North Caucasus), Gorbachev did not set any conditions. Moreover, according to the recollections of the former Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Valentin Falin, Kohl then asked Gorbachev what to do with former members of the SED Politburo and other senior functionaries of the former GDR. Gorbachev replied: “You are Germans. You know better what to do with them!” Thus, he gave the green light to the criminal prosecution of the allies and friends of the USSR.

In Arkhyz, Gorbachev made other concessions: he agreed to penny compensation for the withdrawal of our troops from the GDR. Former finance minister Franz Josef Strauss's "Project for Europe" wrote back in the 1960s that the Federal Republic of Germany was ready to pay the USSR from 100 to 120 billion marks if only for the USSR to grant the GDR "Austrian status." It is clear that in 1990 Kohl also would not have stood in Arkhyz for the price of German unification. This was subsequently stated by Kohl’s former adviser on foreign policy and defense issues, Horst Teltschik.

What is the reason for the ease with which ex-President Gorbachev made strategic concessions, because of which NATO is at our gates today? There is no clear answer from Gorbachev, and the reference to the fact that the question of written guarantees of non-extension of NATO was not raised by the Warsaw Pact allies is simply ridiculous and naive. The USSR then commanded this military bloc and Gorbachev could raise any issues for discussion on behalf of the Warsaw Pact. He didn't.

Today in Bavaria a luxurious mansion is put up for sale, registered to his daughter Gorbachev Irina Virganskaya. Isn't this the price for the ex-president's compliance on the issue of the unification of Germany and maintaining its status in NATO?

February 19 this year In an interview with Interfax, Nikita Mikhalkov repeated Russian President Vladimir Putin's 2005 thesis that the collapse of the USSR was the largest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century, and stated that the policies of Gorbachev and Yeltsin should be officially recognized as criminal.

Despite Mikhalkov’s aplomb and his once campaigning for Yeltsin, I believe that here Nikita Mikhalkov is completely right in his statement, Gorbachev and Yeltsin are criminals who officially need to be convicted of treason against the people of the Soviet Union. And then initiate the Russian Prosecutor’s Office to conduct an investigation and conduct a trial in accordance with the laws of the Russian Federation.

If we don’t all want to find ourselves outside of politics, then we will find ourselves outside of life.

The former head of the USSR Gorbachev deliberately destroyed the country. I have no doubt about it. One of the stages in the destruction of a superpower was the liquidation of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA), an economic bloc led by our country. In one day, he destroyed the CMEA Economic Bloc and his own economy, because he deprived them of sales markets, destroyed their economy and created the ground for so-called revolutions, for dissatisfaction with the socialist system and lost this zone of influence.

And at the same time, he quickly withdrew our army from all these CMEA states, throwing all the property and weapons to these countries for free.

Then Gorbachev simply consistently began to dismantle the state. This can't be a mistake. This can't be stupid. These are conscious steps to dismantle the state. The Soviet Union was not a victim of some economic problems, it became a victim of betrayal by the leadership of the Soviet Union - this needs to be understood. Because when liberals say that “the Soviet economy was inefficient and had no chance,” they are denying reality. They say that China does not exist because China's economy was much less developed than the Soviet Union, and we see how China has developed. When liberals say that the Soviet Union was doomed, that means China was doomed. So there is no China. This means that China has already collapsed. This is a denial of reality.

Therefore, you and I must understand that our country was betrayed by the leadership. Why did Gorbachev do this? This question should be asked to him. Maybe some kind of incriminating evidence on him, maybe.

Perhaps the United States recruited him or his wife Raisa somewhere earlier. And Gorbachev did everything according to the orders of his wife Raisa Maksimovna.

Gorbachev! How is your life, perhaps?
What do you remember in your dreams?
The mother who gave birth to you
Or the country you turned to dust?

You are proud of what you have done,
And you never think about
That your fellow tribesmen curse you,
Whom you betrayed in droves.

You left behind a country in darkness,
With pride on his face,
You advertise Italian pizza,
And as always, you lick the soles
Your overseas friends!
(Yuri Boguslavsky)

During the State Emergency Committee, they included smart people. Yes, the same KGB chairman Kryuchkov knew a lot about Gorbachev’s betrayal and he prepared the State Emergency Committee.

But then B. Yeltsin intervened. Yeltsin decided to save Gorbachev, deliberately force Gorbachev to resign and take his chair. And then Yeltsin, Kuchma and Shushkevich in Belovezhskaya Pushcha betrayed the peoples of the USSR and divided and destroyed the world power - the USSR

Therefore, Gorbachev and Yeltsin are guilty of the destruction of the USSR and the betrayal of the peoples of the USSR.

Both of them are guilty of many subsequent troubles of the nations.

It is Gorbachev and Yeltsin who are to blame for the massacre of almost all Russians in Grozny.

It is Gorbachev and Yeltsin who are to blame for the fact that Russian residents from the former republics of the Soviet Union had to flee to Russia, having lost their apartments and housing.

It is Gorbachev and Yeltsin who are to blame for the fact that fascist power came to Ukraine, a civil war broke out in Donbass and civilians and children were destroyed.

It is Gorbachev and Yeltsin who are to blame for the fact that Russia was plundered and the entire economy fell into decay.

I believe that Gorbachev and Yeltsin should be anathematized by the people of Russia as traitors to the peoples of the Soviet Union.

And Gorbachev must be tried in accordance with the laws of Russia, for betraying the people.

As the date of the GKChP putsch approaches, or, more simply, the final collapse of the USSR, materials for the future trial of high treason by citizen Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev.

The iconic “Kiss of Judas” between Gorbachev and the head of East Germany, Erich Honecker, on October 7, 1989. Eleven days later, Honecker was removed from the presidency. The Berlin Wall fell, marking the demise of the GDR

In continuation of the above, let me remind you of the assessment of Gorbachev’s activities that Putin gave in the book “From the First Person” (2000). In it, Vladimir Vladimirovich, referring to a conversation with former US Secretary of State Henry Kissenger, quoted the latter’s words about Gorbachev’s policies: “I believed that the Soviet Union should not leave Eastern Europe so quickly. We were changing the balance of the world very quickly, and this could lead to undesirable consequences. And now they blame me for this... To be honest, I still don’t understand why Gorbachev did this?”

Summing up this conversation, Putin wrote: “I told him (Kissenger) and now I say: “Kissenger was right. We would have avoided a lot of problems if there had not been such a hasty flight.”

It can be added that this was not just an escape, it was the actual surrender of the USSR, expressed in the destruction of the “security belt” created along the western borders of the Union after the Great Patriotic War and the rejection of the Potsdam Agreements.

As a result, today Russia has NATO on its borders, and the United States is intensively forming its security belt, but on a global scale.

BETRAYAL... AS A MODEL OF BEHAVIOR

The track record of betrayals began when he was Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee for Agriculture. Thanks to the support of Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, he positioned himself as the second person in the party. However, after Andropov’s death, Mikhail Sergeevich’s star began to rapidly fade on the political horizon of the USSR.

In December 1984, Gorbachev had a chance to demonstrate his importance at the international level. He was sent to Great Britain as the head of a minor delegation of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. However, Mikhail Sergeevich decided to impress British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

During one of the meetings with the “Iron Lady,” as Thatcher was then called, Gorbachev “pulled out on the table a map of the General Staff with all the secrecy stamps indicating that the map was genuine. It depicted the directions of missile attacks on Great Britain. This is how Alexander Yakovlev described this episode in his memoirs, “The Pensieve.” Gorbachev’s press secretary Andrei Grachev also wrote about him in the book “Gorbachev. A man who wanted what was best..." And Mikhail Sergeevich himself confirmed this fact in his memoirs "Life and Reforms."
In London, or rather in the Checkers special residence, Gorbachev, not having the authority from the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee and the Supreme Soviet of the USSR to make a statement on behalf of the USSR and show a top-secret map, suggested Thatcher end this situation. The prime minister was so amazed by the Soviet politician’s desire to please his Western partners that she immediately flew to US President Ronald Reagan to tell him that he could do business with this man. Unfortunately, this fact of Gorbachev’s obvious betrayal remained unnoticed.

No less scandalous is the situation with two maps of the air defense of the USSR in the western and northwestern directions of the General Staff of the USSR Ministry of Defense, which in February 1987, USSR Minister of Defense Sergei Leonidovich Sokolov was forced to leave to Secretary General Gorbachev at his request. This information is known from the words of Colonel General Leonid Grigorievich Ivashov, who in 1987 was responsible for the secrecy regime at the General Staff.
The issue of transferring top-secret maps to Gorbachev takes on particular urgency if we recall that three months later, in May 1987, Matthias Rust’s mysterious flight over the USSR took place. Moreover, Rust flew as if he thoroughly knew the location of Soviet radar tracking stations in the northwestern direction. The situation with the Rust flight and the maps still remains unclear.

Speaking about Gorbachev’s treacherous behavior, we should recall the situation with the destruction of the Soviet Oka tactical missile system. The accuracy of this complex was incredible. It almost completely hit targets at a distance of up to 400 km. The Americans were terribly nervous about Oka. And there was a reason.
According to Oka designer Sergei Pavlovich Nepobedimy, American experts estimated the preparation of an adequate response to neutralize Oka at $150 billion. Gorbachev presented these funds with one stroke of the pen to the Americans by signing the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in Washington in December 1987. Oka, due to its parameters, did not fall under the scope of this Agreement. But she ended up there. Here's how it happened.

In April of the above-mentioned year, US Secretary of State George Shultz arrived in Moscow to agree on the main provisions of the INF Treaty. As former Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin writes in the book “Purely Confidentially...”, on the eve of Shultz’s arrival, he and the Chief of the General Staff, Marshal of the USSR Sergei Fedorovich Akhromeev, prepared a memorandum for Gorbachev. It especially emphasized that in no way should we agree with Shultz’s demands to reduce the SS-23, that is, Oka, missiles.

However, the next day, Gorbachev, when meeting with Shultz, unexpectedly agreed with the latter’s proposal to include the Oka complex in the agreement. In return, the USSR did not receive anything from the Americans. When Akhromeev asked what caused this decision, Gorbachev replied that he simply “forgot.”

In this case, all that remains is to believe the version that Raisa Maksimovna once had a confidential conversation with Nancy Reagan. The wife of the American president said that if the SS-23 (Oka) missiles are included in the agreement, then “Rony (Ronald Reagan) will ensure that Gorbachev receives the Nobel Prize.” They say that a diamond necklace was added to this for Raisa Maksimovna. But perhaps these are just rumors. Although on October 15, 1990, Mikhail Sergeevich was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

GORBACHEV'S DEADLY STRIKES ON THE UNION

A striking manifestation of Gorbachev’s treacherous attitude towards the fate of the USSR was his behavior on June 12, 1990. On this day, the Congress of People's Deputies of the RSFSR adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Russia. The example of Lithuania, which declared state sovereignty on May 18, 1989 and already declared secession from the USSR on March 11, 1990, clearly showed that this threatens the Union with a constitutional crisis.

According to the testimony of the First Deputy Chairman of the KGB of the USSR, Philip Bobkov, before voting for the draft Declaration, he and Colonel General Konstantin Kobets went to Gorbachev with this document. The President of the USSR, standing next to KGB Chairman V. Kryuchkov, read the draft and stated that he saw “no reason for the Union authorities to react to this.” Bobkov and Kobets were amazed. The President could not help but understand that the supremacy of Russian laws over those of the Union would mean the collapse of the Union. Kryuchkov modestly remained silent in this situation.

This indicates that Gorbachev was interested in the collapse of the USSR.
In December of the same year, a terrible bell rang for Gorbachev at the IV Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR. Deputy Sazhi Umalatova called for the issue of no confidence in the President of the USSR to be brought up for discussion at the congress. Gorbachev was saved by the chairman Anatoly Lukyanov, who actually failed Umalatova’s proposal.

Then followed the January events in Vilnius. They dealt Gorbachev's authority a serious blow. After this, the prospects for the President of the USSR began to look very sad.

Another alarm bell rang for him at the April (1991) Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee. Two-thirds of the speakers there harshly criticized him. But the main holder of the facts about Gorbachev’s treacherous activities, the head of the KGB, Vladimir Kryuchkov, again, as at the Congress of People’s Deputies, remained silent. As a result, the issue of resignation was removed from the agenda of the Plenum.

At the same time, former US President Richard Nixon visited Moscow on an “inspection trip” on behalf of the White House. The conclusion that Nixon reported to Washington was clear: “The Soviet Union is tired of Gorbachev.” Well, at the end of the summer of 1991, a strange August coup happened, the scenario of which was very reminiscent of Vilnius. Everything indicated that Gorbachev was behind the putsch.

The real salvation for the President of the USSR was the December meeting of Yeltsin, Shushkevich and Kravchuk in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, at which these “chiefs” dealt a fatal blow to the USSR. They understood perfectly well that they had committed a crime and were expecting arrest. The President of the USSR had more than compelling reasons for this: the Constitution of the USSR and the results of the March (1991) all-Union referendum on the preservation of the Union.

However, Gorbachev, in the name of saving his own skin, acted not as the President, the guarantor of the territorial integrity of the USSR, but as an outside observer. As a result, the second most powerful power in the world ceased to exist.

BETRAYAL UNDER SHASHLIKS

Gorbachev’s attitude towards the political allies of the USSR was most clearly demonstrated in the situation with the shameful surrender and subsequent liquidation of the German Democratic Republic.
On December 9, 1989, at the Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee, the Secretary General loudly declared: “We emphatically emphasize that we will not give offense to the GDR. This is our strategic ally and member of the Warsaw Pact. It is necessary to proceed from the realities that emerged after the war - the existence of two sovereign German states, members of the UN..."
But already in February 1990, Gorbachev, under pressure from the United States, began to secretly change his position. Gorbachev’s Kremlin entourage was silent about this, and Great Britain and France were extremely concerned about the unification of Germany on American terms. Margaret Thatcher twice sent Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd to Moscow to stop the “capitulation” of the Russians, or rather Gorbachev. At that moment, Gorbachev was fascinated by the approaching Nobel Prize, which the Americans promised him. For this he was ready to do anything.
At the end of May 1990, the President of the USSR, while on a visit to the United States, agreed with the American proposal that a united Germany should decide for itself whether to be in NATO or not. This was tantamount to recognizing Germany's right to remain in NATO.

Gorbachev's statement alarmed Thatcher so much that on June 8, 1990, she specially flew to Moscow. Thatcher told Gorbachev that “no reasonable person could fail to feel uneasy at the prospect of a vast united German power in the heart of Europe.” However, on August 30, 1989, the Unification Treaty was signed in Berlin on American terms, as a result of which Germany absorbed the GDR.

Gorbachev betrayed not only the GDR, but also its leadership. This happened in July 1990 while Gorbachev and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl were eating Caucasian kebabs at a government dacha in Arkhyz (North Caucasus).

According to the testimony of the former Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Valentin Mikhailovich Falin, Kohl then asked Gorbachev what to do with the former members of the SED Politburo and other senior functionaries of the former GDR. Gorbachev replied: “You are Germans. You know better what to do with them!” Thus, he gave the green light to the criminal prosecution of the allies and friends of the USSR.
In Arkhyz, Gorbachev also made incomprehensible concessions to Kohl in terms of material compensation for the reunification of Germany and the withdrawal of Soviet troops, who had the right to remain there for another twenty years. In 1993, German Finance Minister Theodor Weigel told members of the Bundestag that German reunification cost the German government only 15 billion marks.

The answer to the question of whether Gorbachev acted in the interests of the United States is obvious. The Americans were amazed at how quickly the Soviet leader surrendered position after position to the West. As Michael Beschloss and Strobe Talbott admitted, the Americans were looking for a way to reward Gorbachev “for his willingness to accept the preservation of a united Germany within NATO.” And since Gorbachev’s visit to the United States was scheduled for June 1990, Robert Blackwell suggested: “The meeting should turn into a “June Christmas” for Gorbachev.”

“Gorbachev was literally reveling in his success when the crowd began to cheer and applaud him. Through an interpreter, he exclaimed: “I really feel at home here!” It was a strange, but telling phrase: in his homeland, his own people would not have suited him such a meeting.
Gorbachev had such a great desire to feel the favor of the public and to see evidence of his importance in the West that the next day he allocated four hours of his time and accepted five awards in turn from different organizations...

Gorbachev, smiling broadly, greeted representatives of each organization as they solemnly entered the magnificent reception hall of the Soviet embassy; they hung their emblem on the wall and, in front of the cameras of Soviet and American television, praised Gorbachev to the skies..."

We had to wait two years for the next gift. In 1992, when the Soviet Union was over, Reagan invited the former USSR president to his ranch and gave him a cowboy hat. Gorbachev writes about this in his memoirs. Commenting on this, political scientist Sergei Chernyakhovsky subtly noted that “the former “Caesar of half the world” is still proud of this. Russian courtiers were proud when the tsars gave them fur coats from their shoulders. Richard the Third of York, in a moment of danger, promised to give half his kingdom for a horse. This “Nobel” laureate" is proud that he profitably exchanged his half of the world for a hat from the former American president. Then Reagan's guests paid 5 thousand dollars for a photograph of the former secretary general in a Texas shepherds hat. Gorbachev writes with pride about this too. Not understanding what they were paying for photo of him in a jester's cap."

These are not all the materials by which one can judge the betrayal of citizen Gorbachev. But this is enough to understand that in world history there is simply no other case of betrayal that could be compared in scale and consequences with this one.