I Don't Think Gorbachev Is A Hero

There are a lot of Rightists who think that Mikhail Gorbachev is a hero. This post wants to discuss that.

Let's use soccer as an analogy. A hero in soccer is a player who can send the ball into the other team's goal. If a player sends the ball to his own team's goal, then he cannnot be called a hero. If your country is playing soccer with another country's team, and a player from the other team scored against his own team, then it'll be very advantageous to your country. But will you call that player a hero just because he helped increase your score? Of course not. You'll just think that player is stupid to have helped you, even though you are happy that he's stupid.

Now, let me ask those who think Gorbachev is a hero. Do you think a leader should kick his own team's ass? Do you wish China to have someone like Gorbachev and split China into several pieces?

Of course I know Taiwan Separatists love that. If you read Lee Tung Hui's book (former Taiwainese President) he makes it clear that China should be split into 8 different countries.

In fact, to judge whether someone is a hero, there are several standards:

1) If that person thinks he's a hero himself. Well according to Gorbachev today, he admits in his book that he thinks he was fooled back then, and that he regret to have started the whole "glasnost" movement, or at least not in such a great rush, that led to the split of the USSR.

2) If the people of a country (in this case, Russia) thinks he's a hero. Well it's obvious today that Russians have completely abandoned Gorbachev. Otherwise, why didn't they elect him to be the President of Russia rather than Putin (Putin looks a lot "iron-fist"-like, which is exactly the opposite of Gorbachev). Most Russians like Putin, and a lot of them like Yeltsin, but very few Russians like Gorbachev.

Now for those Rightists, who have actually read the books by Gorbachev? Can any of you quote me an excerpt? I know you can't, because no one is interested in his book "New Ideas".

My honest opinion is that those so called Rightists on the Internet who praise Gorbachev, their intention is to collapse the Communist regime (am I right?), to completely change China's constitution. So if they get arrested in China, I think they have no one to blame but themselves.