In an odd coincidence, Mikhail Gorbachev, the last general secretary of the Soviet Union, confessed to regrets to V. Pozner of Russia’s Channel 1 on the same day, on December 1, that our own George W. Bush did so, during an interview with ABC’s Charlie Gibson.
Readers of the Moderate Voice are no doubt aware of Bush’s ‘confession’ – in which he admits to regretting, ‘the intelligence failure in Iraq.’ According to the Russian newspaper Argumenty i Facty, one of Gorby’s greatest regrets – beyond the fact that the Soviet Union collapsed – is that:
“I didn’t send Yeltsin away forever to some country to prepare bananas for processing.”
Translated By Yekaterina Blinova
December 10, 2008
Russia – Argumenty i Facty – Original Article (Russian)
The still active president of the United States and the former head of the U.S.S.R. ‘confessed’ before the TV cameras on the same day. …
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