Letter to Morning Star -that was not published .

Dear comrades ,

I felt nauseated reading Andrew Murrays ‘s obituary of Gorbachov  which was basically a whitewashing exercise which was awful  to read . One key word that was missing from the article ; Traitor ! . The word traitor sums up Gorbachov and his life’s work .‘

 Gorbachov’s treachery and his crimes are so enormous and immense that they are almost beyond human imagination . Gorbachov betrayed not just the USSR but the international communist movement . Those trying to apologise for Gorbachov even now forget that thanks to Gorbachov whole communist parties disappeared or were decimated .

   Murray claims that Gorbachov “unwittingly destroyed “ the USSR .However Gorbachov told the Turkish media in 2000 that “My ambition was to liquidate communism, the dictatorship over all the people…. My ideal is the path of social democracy. Only this system shall benefit all the people. This quest I decided I must fulfil.” Why does Murray ignore this ?.

 Gorbachov began restoring capitalism in the USSR in the mid 1980s . 

He presided over the dismantling of the socialist system in the USSR and Eastern Europe and joined in imperialism’s attempts to destroy socialist countries elsewhere .

  

Gorbachov recognised the south Korean puppet fascist regime and was later shown by the former head of the USSR state security commission to have received a bribe of $100,000 from the south Korean puppet dictator Roh Tae Woo .Under Gorbachov , the USSR initially sided with the US against Iraq in 1990-1991.

  The rot in the USSR started with Khruschov who ended the dictatorship of the proletariat,  in the USSR, opened up to  Western cultural infiltration  and collaborated with imperialism .  Gorbachov simply carried Khruchov’s policies to their logical conclusion.

  There can be no apologies and justifications for Gorbachov.  A fitting epitaph for Gorbachov would be ‘ the man who sold his country for a slice of pizza