The president of SYRIZA points out that “his vision of a world common home for all is the one that is crushed every day by wars, such as the one caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, by fences and by new walls”
For the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mr Mikhail Gorbachevwrites o Alexis Tsipras in “Sunday Dawn”.
In his article entitled “The Berlin Wall has fallen, but new walls have been raised in the modern world”, the president of SYRIZA PS points out, among other things, that Gorbachev tried with perestroika and glasnost “to breathe life into existing socialism, merging it with democracy and transparency. To reconstruct him on a completely different basis, which would distance him and separate him from the dictatorial concept and the bureaucratic act of power, in the name of any humanitarian ideals”. “Obviously it failed,” he adds, “the so-called socialist camp disintegrated in its own hands and the regimes of existence were overthrown.” He points out that during his days the Wall no longer divided Germany and the once mighty USSR “dissolved with his own resignation from the position of its first and last President, even as a state, to give birth to a series of young states in her position. And to prove that no plan, no matter how inspired, can oppose and overturn reality when it has taken its course.”
Mr. Tsipras states that “unfortunately the world did not get better after that, as many expected, announcing the end of History”, stressing that “the Berlin Wall fell, but new walls were raised in our modern world”. “And the visions of millions of people,” he continues, “who were inspired by the ideals of social justice and a society without exploitation of man by man and believed after the decline of existing socialism in the possibility of its reconstruction with the goal of a socialism with democracy and freedom were buried and those under the debris of the regime”, which “surprisingly, as solid as it looked, it collapsed so easily, like a paper tower”.
But, he says, with the final submission of the red flag with the hammer and sickle by the Kremlin we did not see a new, better, world rising, freer, more democratic, more peaceful. “In any case”, Mr. Tsipras underlines, “Mikhail Gorbachev’s vision of a world common home for all is one that is being crushed every day by wars, such as the one caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, by fences and by new walls. And humanity is once again on the threshold, if it has not already passed the door, of a new Cold War, with devastating effects on people’s security and lives.”
The president of SYRIZA states that since, as it is said, History is written by the victors, “Gorbachev, as the ultimate loser, could not narrate History, nor even convincingly explain his intentions. Because the result was resignation, dissolution, defeat. And, even worse, the mockery of being praised by his opponents and pitied by his friends.”
He emphasizes that however “it would be unfair and ahistorical” to overlook two important legacies from his leadership: “The first concerns the vision of the last leader of the USSR for a peaceful world, which will accommodate all peoples and people”, he emphasizes. And the second, and perhaps more important, fact that Mikhail Gorbachev refused to use violence to stop his coup and the coups in his country and its allies, which had nothing to do with his own intentions. And it did not turn the psychosis of existing socialism into bloodshed, as usually happens when regimes are overthrown and authoritarian leaders are at the helm, like many of those who today occupy and afflict our world.”
Finally, Mr. Tsipras states that “for the above alone, I believe that the last leader of the USSR deserves at least our respect. And as for the big question marks that accompany him, whether, why, maybe and how, these will be answered by History”.
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