youtu.be/QVHaLqPifuo I live and will continue to live according to my conscience and principles. Everyone else can go crazy, he told The Moscow Times in an extensive interview this week. Despite saying he is already a part of history, Gorbachev said he cannot simply observe passively what is happening in Russia today. I need to participate, and I will. Nobody will shut my mouth, even though people wanted me to emigrate. I dont want to leave, let those people leave, Gorbachev said, banging his hands on the table for emphasis. Gorbachev, who in recent months underwent treatment at a hospital in Moscow, said he has been reported dead at least 10 times. I am called a traitor because I destroyed so many nuclear arms. The second treachery is that we built good relations with the U.S., he said. For those who address their letters to Gorbachev at the Kremlin, time has clearly stood still. And today, when President Vladimir Putins Russia and the West find themselves at odds once again, the time when secretary generals in the Kremlin were engaged in an ideological rivalry with the West seems closer than ever. Seeds of DiscordDuring the festivities marking the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall this month, Gorbachev warned that the world risks a new Cold War. As someone who worked his way up through the Communist Party at a time when the Soviet Union and the U.S. were ready to destroy each other in a nuclear war and who then worked hard to eliminate divisions in Europe and the world at large, Gorbachev is better qualified than most to offer insight into the strikingly similar issues the world faces now. Today, Gorbachev argues that the problems in Ukraine and the world at large are in part due to errors made during the collapse of the old system. What is happening now in Ukraine is in many ways due to the mistakes of the breakup of the Soviet Union. Once they decided to dissolve the union, they should have agreed on territories and borders, Gorbachev said. Crimea was Russian, and most people in Crimea voted in favor of joining Russia [in the recent referendum]. I supported this move from the beginning, and I am half-Ukrainian. I worry about what is happening in Ukraine. … It might not be a scientific fact, but we are the same people, he said. Gorbachev believes that the Soviet Union collapsed mainly due to the political self-interest of local leaders — above all, the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who, Gorbachev said, wanted to get rid of him. Gorbachev has never communicated with Yeltsin since. There was nothing to talk about with this usurper who went behind my back, Gorbachev said. Read more at liveleak/view?i=92e_1416559318#ow5eQUwTV8DokyJz.99
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