In the opposition

Spam from Gorbachev

February 1, 2012 Alexander Podrabinek

At first I wanted to unsubscribe from the newsletter, which stupidly comes to me from the Gorby.ru website without my request, but there was no such option in the coming letters. Then I tried to unsubscribe from the stream of red vulgarity right on their website, but there was no such option there. A very annoying gentleman understands that no one will voluntarily read him, and therefore plunges his works as a full spam.
Usually I throw spam from Gorbachev into garbage without reading, but then my attention was attracted by the link at the end of the text to the “New Gazeta” of January 30, 2012. Why does the liberal publication provide its stripes for socialist nonsense, understandly and, perhaps, even sorry, Gorbachev is one of the main shareholders of Novaya Gazeta. How can you refuse?
And I read. My God, spam is not what I get to the address of my email! This is nonsense on the scale of one mailbox. Spam is what Mikhail Gorbachev is trying to foil our society, which has just taken a breath after 70 years of socialist experiments.
He did not come up with anything new, the same old barrel organ. The motive is socialist. Execution is false. It turns out that "the outrage of citizens in the Duma election tends to saddle and use right -lubal circles." But in fact, most Russians are left. Their priorities, Gorbachev believes, "the right to free education and medical care, to provide old age, with illness, the right to work and a worthy payment."
I now understand why Gorbachev did not come on December 24 to a rally on Sakharov Avenue, but sent a video instead with his performance. The video did not see and did not tell his hero what kind of audience gathered at the rally and as if she reacted to the belching of socialism. Therefore, Gorbachev can continue to be mistaken, thinking that for people who have come to a rally, the main thing is not freedom and democracy, but a manual for illness and state handouts. The shut -up ears will remain deaf.
“It would be naive to believe,” writes M. Gorbachev, “that the country with a long tradition of autocratic and authoritarian rule (and thinking) can immediately reach a political system in one fell swoop that meets all the requirements of parliamentary democracy.” The leaders of Soviet totalitarianism, various figures of the communist movement and their current socialist followers, were tired of the unlawfulness of Russia to democracy. They mean that the values ​​of democracy will gradually distribute the most worthy representatives to the unprepared people, that is, they themselves. It would be naive to believe that M. Gorbachev with his tradition of autocratic and authoritarian rule in a couple of decades will obey communist prejudices and become a democrat. Therefore, he continues with the persistence of the Secretary General of the CPSU Central Committee to repeat about the "systemic crisis of world capitalism", about the need for the "active role of the state in the economic and social sphere."
As a person with a subtle political instinct, guessing the direction of the wind before he blew, Gorbachev has long realized that changes are coming in the country. Therefore, he not only in moderation dared and criticizes the authorities, but also reimbursed to return the country to socialist rails-the very ones from which the country had gone in the early 90s, abandoning the Gorbachev plans for the modernization of socialism. Now Gorbachev is trying to jump on the bandwagon of the last car to return to the past. And in vain - for the train of history, return tickets are not sold.

Photo by RIA Novosti / Pavel Lisitsyn

(Poster with the inscription "Thank you to Gorbachev", in honor of the ex-president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, on one of the streets in the center of Yekaterinburg. 03/02/2011)