Gorbachev, Mikhail
1931-
1931-
Soviet Union president, 1985-91
born Russia, to "proletariat" family, though
pre-revolution grandparents were well-off.
initiated perestroika (restructuring), and glasnost
(openness)
Soviet president at time of Soviet Union dissolution
Nobel Peace Prize, 1990
Moscow Univ. , law degree
married Raisa, children
born Russia, to "proletariat" family, though
pre-revolution grandparents were well-off.
initiated perestroika (restructuring), and glasnost
(openness)
Soviet president at time of Soviet Union dissolution
Nobel Peace Prize, 1990
Moscow Univ. , law degree
married Raisa, children
| oshobob The Living Workshop |
| People in Osho's Talks |
| Now Gorbachev is again a visionary, like Marx, and does not understand the practical necessities of reality. And you will be surprised to know – the whole American propaganda machine is pressurizing the world news media to make Gorbachev a great hero. It is the American strategy to make him a great hero and praise all the things he is doing by withdrawing all the iron curtains, by reducing armaments, by reducing the budget for the army – forty percent of the budget has been reduced right now, and every year he is going to cut it. Nuclear weapons have been stopped; for two years they have not created any nuclear weapons. They want Gorbachev to become such a big celebrity that it becomes a matter of his personal prestige – not communism, not the Soviet Union. Whatever happens to the Soviet Union is not the issue: Gorbachev becomes the great man of history who changed a dictatorship into a democracy... --Osho Communism and Zen Fire, Zen Wind, ch. 3 |