Obama's CHANGE vs Gorbachev's PERESTROIKA

I think so that in history to follow, Obama will be seen as another Gorbachev - the USA version. But I don't see very positively of both. Gorbachev took Communist Soviet Empire to it ending. Obama's Change etc will also take Capitalist US Superpower to it ending.

Gorbachev's Perestroika vs Obama's Change.

Soviet Empire vs US Empire.

Communist Power vs Capitalist Power.

Warsaw Pack vs NATO.

Eastern Block communist nations vs Western capitalism world.

Same ending.



http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/06/2411529.htm

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<!--*start_indexing*--> Gorbachev says Obama will bring 'perestroika' to US: report

Posted Thu Nov 6, 2008 7:29am AEDT
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev welcomed Barack Obama's victory in the US presidential election on Wednesday, saying he would bring "perestroika" to the United States, ITAR-TASS news agency reported.


"I am very happy. Two or three years ago I said America needed perestroika, and this was greeted with cheers in the US," Mr Gorbachev was quoted as saying, using the term for his 1980s liberal reforms that helped end the Cold War.


"It is no accident that the whole world followed these elections, including in Russia, where they were followed like never before. This shows there is hope that the arrival of a new administration will bring changes," he added.


Mr Gorbachev, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, added that the election of the United States' first black president was a "lesson" for other countries and showed "a very strong side of America."


Perestroika - a Russian word that translates roughly as "rebuilding" - was the name given to the liberal reforms Gorbachev introduced in the 1980s as he opened up the markets of the former Soviet Union.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20081107/118196981.html


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</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> MOSCOW, November 7 (RIA Novosti) - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has said that the Obama administration in the United States needs far-reaching 'perestroika' reforms to overcome the financial crisis and restore balance in the world.


The term perestroika, meaning restructuring, was used by Gorbachev in the late 1980s to describe a series of reforms that abolished state planning in the Soviet Union.



In an interview with Italy's La Stampa published on Friday, Gorbachev said President-elect Barack Obama needs to fundamentally change the misguided course followed by President George W. Bush over the past eight years.



Gorbachev said that after transforming his country in the late 1980s, he had told the Americans that it was their turn to act, but that Washington, celebrating its Cold War victory, was not interested in "a new model of a society, where politics, economics and morals went hand in hand."



He said the Republicans have failed to realize that the Soviet Union no longer exists, that Europe has changed, and that new powers like China, Brazil and Mexico have emerged as important players on the world stage.



He told the paper that the world is waiting for Obama to act, and that the White House needs to restore trust in cooperation with the United States among the Russians.



"This is a man of our times, he is capable of restarting dialogue, all the more since the circumstances will allow him to get out of a dead-end situation. Barack Obama has not had a very long career, but it is hard to find faults, and he has led an election campaign winning over the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton herself. We can judge from this that this person is capable of engaging in dialogue and understanding current realities."



Former Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, founder of now defunct Yukos oil giant, who is in prison on fraud and tax evasion charges, also used the word perestroika in discussing the future course of the Obama administration.



In an article published in the business daily Vedomosti on Friday, Khodorkovsky said Obama's election win was not merely another change of power in a separate country, but was important for all states.



He said that, "being a liberal himself, he thinks that the world will take a left turn," and that "a global perestroika would be a logical response to the global crisis."



"The paradigm of global development is about to change. The era inaugurated by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher 30 years ago is over."



He said decisions in neoliberal economies had been made mainly by supranational institutions and transnational corporations.



Khodorkovsky predicted: "Globalization will slow to a crawl, but will not stop. The 'golden billion' of the world's richest people will have to abandon hopes of increasing their wealth, but high consumer standards which developed at the end of the 20th century will be unaffected by the change. The striving for political freedom and open competition of personalities and ideas will not disappear."



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We will come to see Obama's version of 500 Days.

Then we will also see famiLEE LEEgime's 50 Days


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/500_Days


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<!-- start content --> 500 Days Program (Russian: программа "500 дней") was an ambitious program to overcome the economic crisis in the Soviet Union by means of transition into market economy.


The program was proposed by Grigory Yavlinsky and further developed by a work group under the direction of Stanislav Shatalin (an economic advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev). Before beginning work on the project, Shatalin had been assured by Gorbachev that he was serious about radically reforming the Soviet economy.


Therefore, in August of 1990, the group issued a 400-page report titled "Transition to the Market." It was based on the earlier "400 Days Project" prepared by Yavlinsky and became known colloquially as the "500 Days Program" as it intended to create the groundwork for a modern market economy in 500 days. The report called for creation of a competitive market economy, mass privatization, prices determined by the market, integration with the world economic system, a large transfer of power from the Union government to the Republics, and many other radical reforms.


The 500 Days Program immediately gained the complete support of Boris Yeltsin and a more skeptical support from Mikhail Gorbachev; soon after, the conservative Soviet Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov openly repudiated it.


The Supreme Soviet delayed in adopting the program, eventually accepting a more moderate program for economic reform, titled: "Basic Guidelines for Stabilization of the Economy and Transition to a Market Economy." The new program contained many measures from the 500-Days Program, but most notably lacked a timetable and didn't mention the division of economic power between the Union and Republics.

It is no wonder no country gives a damn about you a useless and uneducated so called freedom fighter.