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by Malte Lehming


If you ask the Germans, whom they owe the unit, call three names: Gorby, Gorby, and Gorby. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, the former Communist Party chief and president of the Soviet Union did, glasnost (openness) and perestroika (reconstruction) invented, ended the Cold War, by distancing himself from the Brezhnev Doctrine, the Eastern European countries given the freedom, for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize and was named by Time magazine "Man of the Decade" award. About as Jane Smith has saved the events. In her narrative Gorbi Barack Obama is a kind of Soviet Union.

But that Gorbachev no driver, but was a man driven to be hidden in it. And who knows this better than the former foreign minister, Eduard Shevardnadze? He has now drawn in a "Focus" interview on the material being behind the new awareness. The U.S. plans for a missile system in space, so Shevardnadze, had helped German unity to make this possible. Nanu? Exactly! Through the SDI project of Ronald Reagan, the Soviet Union was forced both to a relaxation rate and the recognition of German unity. Mind you, not just American hawks claim that the USSR was totgerüstet, now close this ruling to the most intimate connoisseurs of this part of history.

This is, this much is certain, do not reduce the German Gorbi worship. Because of the traditionally immune to facts. That in Moscow there is a pure apparatchik had come to power, who had heard as a 25-year-old to the nomenclature, strongly supported by the Politburo mentors Suslov and Andropov (Ex-intelligence chief), dessen oberstes Ziel nicht die Förderung von Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit war, sondern die Rettung der Sowjetunion vor dem wirtschaftlichen Kollaps – all das wird in der Gorbimanie verdrängt. Rund ein Viertel des Bruttosozialprodukts flossen in der UdSSR damals in die Rüstung, seit 1982 stagnierten Wachstum und Pro-Kopf-Einkommen, Inflation, Mangelwirtschaft und Korruption waren weit verbreitet, in Afghanistan erlitt die Rote Armee eine herbe Niederlage (rollender Schrott). Der Konkurrenzkampf der Supermächte schien verloren. Das imperialistische kapitalistische System triumphierte über das sozialistische Weltsystem.

Darauf hatte Reagan mit seiner berühmten Juni-Rede von 1982 („Reich des Bösen“) worked consistently. His strategic goal, he formulated a clear and far-sighted: "The Soviets were forced to choose: either to terminate its policy of permanent confrontation with the West or endure increasing destructive pressure on the home front to have." Massive armor investments at plus the announcement 23rd March 1983, a Strategic Defence (SDI) applied to build up the ideological opponent to the brink of ruin. Footnote: Just published in the time a Social Democrat Oskar Lafontaine called a book titled "Fear of the Friends". He said the United States.
When Gorbachev finally on 11 March 1985 concerning the second-youngest general secretary was elected in the history of the Communist Party, which was mainly with the intention to save the Soviet economy through a change of course from ruin. That his reform agenda, then began to lead a life of its own barely manageable, then that ended in the German unit is part of the irony of this story.

Gorby, Gorby, Gorby? No: Ronald Reagan, John Paul II and Mikhail Gorbachev until the end comes. A quarter century later, the grant even the vanquished. Only the Germans have not yet understood.