The New European Soviet.

Politics Is My Second Love, Next To My Love For Raisa [gorbacheva].

Sometimes Its Difficult To Accept, To Recognise Ones Own Mistakes, But One Must Do It. I Was Guilty Of Overconfidence And Arrogance, And I Was Punished For That.

The Soviet People Want Full-blooded And Unconditional Democracy.

Please Remember One Lesson Of The 20th Century. One Cannot Force Happiness, Impose Happiness On Nations By Imposing Any Kind Of Utopia On Others. The Communist Model Of Society Was A Kind Of Imposed Utopia For Which The Russian People In Particular Paid A Great Price. Still, Sometimes We See That Attempts Are Being Made To Impose Some Other Kind Of Model On The Entire World - Maybe A Westernized Or Americanized Model... This Is Not The Way To Go Because This Can Only Create Conflict.

With Yeltsin, The Soviet Union Broke Apart, The Country Was Totally Mismanaged, The Constitution Was Not Respected By The Regions Of Russia. The Army, Education And Health Systems Collapsed. People In The West Quietly Applauded, Dancing With And Around Yeltsin. I Conclude Therefore That We Should Not Pay Too Much Attention To What The West Is Saying.