承前*1
Julian Borger*2 “How Gorbachev’s political legacy was destroyed by Putin” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/30/gorbachev-political-legacy-destroyed-by-putin
冒頭のセンテンスは、”Mikhail Gorbachev lived long enough to see everything he had tried to achieve crumble or get blown up.”
ミハイル・ゴルバチョフが試みた蘇聯改革はウラディミール・プーチン体制下で略反故にされてしまった。
上掲の記事の前半分では、主に国際関係、軍縮問題が語られている。後半部で言及されているのは。国内の民主化の問題。
ゴルバチョフはプーチンに対する非難は慎重に回避していた；
Gorbachev hoped to fundamentally change the mindset of a country that had never experienced democracy, having gone straight from Romanov to Bolshevik dictatorships. The last days of the Soviet Union under Gorbachev’s glasnost (openness) policy were more conducive to freedom of expression than Putin’s Russia where any hint of criticism can bring a jail term.People have been imprisoned for ironically holding up a blank piece of card. Venediktov’s radio station Ekho Moskvy was closed down and the Jewish journalist found a pig’s head and antisemitic abuse left outside his door*3.
Gorbachev closed down the gulags; Putin’s leading opponent, Alexei Navalny, having survived poisoning, is currently languishing in a penal colony where he has been put in solitary confinement for the third time in a month*4.
Gorbachev was increasingly careful about what he said about Putin in public, and praised him for consolidating the Russian state after the chaos under Boris Yeltsin. But in 2011, he had a warning for what was to come.“It’s perhaps understandable that during the initial phase he used certain authoritarian methods in his leadership, but using authoritarian methods as a policy for the future – that I think is wrong. I think that’s a mistake,” he said at a public event in the US*5.
“Wherever you go … you see that where you have leaders that rule for 20 years or more … the only thing that is important in such situations for those leaders and people around them is holding on to power,” he said. “I believe that this is something that is happening now in our country.”
*1:https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2022/09/02/033305
*2:See also https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20070622/1182478564 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20110723/1311433720 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20111225/1324782469 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20141023/1414072117 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20150107/1420655628 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20150126/1422239408 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20160312/1457803443 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20160726/1469548484 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20170415/1492243639 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20170426/1493180196 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20170912/1505181465 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20170914/1505364884 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20170920/1505920680 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20171001/1506876750 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2022/02/24/211721 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2022/02/27/124259
*3:See REE “Pig's Head Left At Moscow Apartment Of Radio Station's Editor In Chief” https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-venediktov-pig-head/31769204.html
*4:See Reuters “Jailed Kremlin critic Navalny in solitary confinement yet again - Twitter feed” https://www.reuters.com/world/jailed-kremlin-critic-navalny-solitary-confinement-yet-again-twitter-feed-2022-08-30/
