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GORBACHEV PLOTTING A COUP OF HIS OWN
August 18 2011
Moscow, Russia – By the time the 1991 coup hit Russia most of the damage had been done. The Soviet Union was effectively dead and there was little the coup plotters, even had they been successful, could have done to restore the Soviet era. The Reds were gone, effectively, and the coup was the the tipping point.
What the attempt did accomplish, however, was to push Mikhail Gorbachev from office and into political isolation ever since. The man who had brought about a profound change the in the fortunes of more than a dozen countries and completely upended global politics was now on the outside, where he has stayed ever since. And he isn’t happy about it.
Now eighty-years old, Gorbachev has stayed largely out of the limelight in recent years, until today when he called for a change in the current government of his country. The former President called for the ouster of the senior leadership including Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and an overhaul of the way business is done in the country, not unlike what happened to him all those years ago.
“Our senior management should be updated. There comes a time when you need to get out of this rut. If the regime behaves just to increase its own power then this is already partially authoritarian,” Gorbachev said to reporters. “This United Russia Party is a worse version of the Soviet Communist Party.”
Russian officials had no comment on Gorbachev’s statements but it is seen as unlikely that they will step aside, even for the respected former leader.
“There are certainly some concerns in Russia. There is a hard line streak in the leadership there but it is not quite as extreme as life under Communist rule. As bad as things might be under Putin, he isn’t Stalin. I think perhaps Gorbachev has forgotten that,” said Scrape TV European analyst Gillian Weismann. “However, it is the obligation of all citizens to speak out on what they believe is wrong, and if they are forced to take up arms to protest that governing body than they must do so. Gorbachev learned that the hard way, and now I guess he wants to teach Putin the same lesson.”
Russia will hold another election next year but few expect much change in leadership.
“People didn’t like what he did all those years ago and they wanted a change. They pushed him out and now if he wants to affect the same changes he will have to do the same thing. It’s unlikely that he will have the kind of military support needed for a full fledged coup, which will make it a challenge, but you have to admire his passion for at least trying,” continued Weismann. “A coup is a difficult thing to pull off and I don’t think he is going to have a whole lot of luck, frankly, but if he does, well that will be right justice. That will be a kind of fair play. Even if it is unsuccessful he will at least be able to make himself a potent political power again and that alone could make it worth the effort. One just hopes that that political victory won’t make him into the man he fights against, that would be sad.”
Gorbachev has apparently been spotted fishing and hunting without his shirt in recent weeks. Newspapers have chosen not to run the pictures.
Emil Uliya, International Correspondent
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