Putin tries to Achieve a Pre Gorbachev-Russia
The Noble Peace Prize awarded politician and probably one of the most loved man to have walked on this planet, last Soviet Union leader, Mikhail Gorbachev took his last breath on the 30th of August.
Gorbachev’s contribution to bringing peace to the then developing political unrest across the world was a single-handed effort and rather a fearless one. His endeavor of introducing radical reforms to the transcontinental country of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and implement the idea of democracy over dictatorship marks the beginning of a revolution in the face of monopoly.
But the aftermath of his demise was rather the initiation of the development of controversial events where Gorbachev received criticism from the people of his own country. Few straight away criticized him for the dissolving of the Soviet Union which, in their opinion, was not for the better but was rather a wipe away of Russia from its glory and potency.
President Putin also has radiated a sense of underlying censure against Gorbachev even if he never openly condemned him. He remained absent from Mikhail Gorbachev’s funeral ceremony in Novodevichy cemetery after he was bid farewell in Moscow’s House of the Unions. The fact that Putin explained his absence from the late politician’s much-anticipated homage ceremony by giving the alibi as his busy “work schedule” explains for itself.
Putin said,
“First and foremost it is worth acknowledging that the demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century,”.
This statement explains the notable difference in the ideologies of the two leaders even though Gorbachev admittedly had acknowledged that the grounds on which he was held hostage weren’t entirely unfair but it was never his intention but a series of events amplified to result in the dissolution of the USSR.
All of this elucidates why just a few days after Mikhail Gorbachev’s demise, his newspaper Novaya Gazeta was seized of its print media license banning it from operating by the Moscow court. Novaya Gazeta is an independent Russian newspaper famous for its investigative and unbiased approach to its coverage of politically and socially controversial affairs.
It was partly established in the year 1993 by former Soviet Union President, Mikhail Gorbachev who used money from his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize for his remarkable contribution to building international relations going against all the odds.
Looks like President Vladimir Putin is adamant about achieving his vision of Russia that existed before Mikhail Gorbachev rose to power. His vicious excavation of Ukraine marks the initiation of the long-lost conservative concept of dictatorship.
Although Putin explains this unanticipated step of Russia as an answer to the gradually establishing threats from the west the death of Mikhail Gorbachev made it very clear that the Russian President and the totalitarian regime is the north and south pole of a huge horseshoe magnet, attracting each other strongly and have no plans to part.
It was said that the domineering Russian Invasion of Ukraine gave trauma to the veteran leader. He was dejected by Putin’s unreasonable idiosyncratic compulsion for power and dominance.
Mikhail Gorbachev was a promoter of peace and performed his political reforms on relative fairgrounds. He was shocked and bewildered by the course of war declared by his own country where he himself was an advocate of peace and disapproved of warfare.
Gorbachev’s contribution to world history is undeniable and priceless. Gorbachev always remained a communist but his progressive ideologies drove it away from the old-fashioned Marxist-Leninist beliefs of centralized governance. He was not a willing supporter of Imperialism which made him an outcast in his own land.
The feted newspaper Novaya Gazeta was just an inanimate replica of its founder, Mikhail Gorbachev. It always challenged Kremlin policies and covered news related to any topic which was a threat to society even at the cost of exposing famous personalities involved in corruption. Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, won Nobel Peace Prize for his remarkable contribution to supporting fearless journalism in politically unstable Russia.
Since the beginning of the Ukraine war, Putin tried to quash the liberty of independent news outlets and foreign media if anything related to the annexation was covered. Putin went to an extent where he signed the draconian law which criminalizes any criticism of the war, imposing legal steps on anyone trying to do so.
Novaya Gazeta on the other hand turned into a rebel even after the media restrictions and sent a few of its journalists outside Russia to cover the ongoing events in the Ukraine crisis imposed by Russia. This was all done with the support of Dmitry Muratov who raised money for Ukrainian refugees by auctioning his Nobel Peace Prize.
Muratov was targeted and attacked later in relation to his criticism of the war. Many other journalists from the same publication lost their lives walking the liberal yet lethal road of truth.
Russia revokes Novaya Gazeta just after Mikhail Gorbachev’s death ending his legacy and his efforts of a lifetime
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