According to the news out there, on august 30 of this year the former president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, died. How much coverage was there in the news channels for such a one and only figure in the history of human kind? Or is it the denial of the west and especially here for the earth shattering blunder of their policy toward this guy and their wasting of a golden opportunity the like of which never occurred before, for bringing freedom and democracy to another place? Again how many times had it occurred before in the whole human history for someone who reaches the top in a dictatorship system to choose to switch to the good direction like that? But apparently, as usual here, the group ego took, for itself, advantage of the situation and the preference was given to taking the soviet union, despite being under this kind of a person, as an enemy to be dismantled rather than a friend to be helped. Even the writer of this ARTICLE , which to me shows more of how the west is internally troubled about the policy they took toward that man than makes any real criticism of him, points out that the economic help which this pioneer of freedom and democracy in the soviet union was hoping for never materialized ("...begging for financial help from the George H.W. Bush administration, which never came through"). I remember how every time I saw in the news Yeltsin giving this man a hard time I wondered if the democratic powers of the world really letting that happen and do they really think there is a comparison between the two? This man brought real freedom of expression to Russia, good luck seeing such a thing again even in the dream world. But it is not only democratic systems are morally better, they are also safer to live with.
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