Gorbachev: An unworthy dream

On the thirtieth anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize for the only president of the USSR

In the theater of nations, Gorbacheva play. Mikhail Sergeevich - Evgeny Mironov. Raisa Maksimovna - Chulpan Khamatova. The production of Alvis Hermanis. On the premiere of October 10, tickets were sold. For other performances of the month they cost 10-15 thousand rubles. And they are bought. The pre -premiere show was visited by the protagonist of the performance and, they say, praised the actors.

“This is the strongest drama that I have seen recently,” the historian Vasily Zharkov shares his opinion. - Drama about a devoted and trampled dream. Our generation was too young to realize its meaning ... "

Curious: the performances are on October 14 and 16, and the day between them is a round date: 30 years from the day when the Nobel Committee honored the President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev of the World. 15 years after the academician Andrei Sakharov, who received her for the “fearless support of the fundamental principles of the world between people” and for the “courageous struggle with the abuse of power and any form of suppression of human dignity”.

“For a leading role in the peaceful process - an important part of the life of the international community” received the Gorbachev Prize. This phrase peculiarly continues the formula for the merits of Sakharov.

Imagine: what fearlessness was required by the head of a totalitarian nuclear power fighting in Afghanistan to propose the ideas of a pan -European house and new thinking - the transition from the struggle for the spheres of influence and the Cold War to peaceful competition, limiting weapons and humanitarian cooperation. What a courage to possess in order to encourage the peoples and politicians brought up on enmity, to see common interests and give them priority before private. In order not to interfere with velvet revolutions in socialist Islands and promote the unification of Germany, having completed the conflict in the heart of the continent. How worthy, not abusing power, after the disgraced academician to support the fundamental principles of the world, and to return it from exile and create conditions for inclusion in politics, along with people who want to change and develop the country.

Then Gorbachev is truly a hero. The protagonist of the colossal drama, coming on the stage lying from the Kuril Islands to the Berlin Wall and further in front of the eyes of amazed humanity, partially understanding that it is not just a spectator. Gorbachev makes the world rotate around the Kremlin!

The new words Perestroika and Glasnost fill the broadcast and the press. The incredible is going on behind the iron curtain.

“Is it really true? Are they changing? In some miracle, by some miracle, reinforced concrete bowels of the Red Establishment of the Red Establishment were given gave birth to a leader who was able to rebuild the monstrous totalitarian colossus? ” - asked the global political class.

Like exiles from the USSR. “If this is a new course, then will the party and state apparatus let Gorbachev develop him into a state strategy? But will not devour it, how did Khrushchev gobble up? " - asked some.

“And if this is a temporary campaign of limited liberalization of the regime? A cunning attempt to get a break, to slow down in a race with a rapidly developing West, in which the success is increasingly doubtful? Or, worse, deception and provocation? " - others asked. The answer was the return of citizenship.

But the main question sounded like this: "Is it possible to trust Gorbachev?"

It reflected the key problem: is it possible, in principle, now the trust between the parts for so many years forcibly divided great civilization? For trust is a key condition for the reunification of not only Germany, but also the “East” with the whole “West”.

The Nobel Prize has become a symbolic sign: trust is possible.

In the person of Gorbachev, the USSR received it. Then still "socialist". It was a sign of recognition: socialism with a human face is possible - a peaceful, open to the world, free and abundant. Gorbachev's dream.

Well, soon the union disappeared from the map of the Earth. What is the role of his only president? What was he right? What was wrong with? Today's sharp disputes about this are echoes of the great drama of the twentieth century. And the humane, blooming socialism remains a dream. Not trampled and not devoted.

After all, only the dreamer himself can betray the dream.