Re: Gorbatchow nochmal

Geschrieben von another am 23. Februar 2003 20:18:17:

Als Antwort auf: Re: Gorbatchow nochmal geschrieben von wikking am 23. Februar 2003 18:56:34:

>Das sind ja m.E. Fragen, die eher intuitiv anzugehen sind, weil für die "logische Betrachtung" viele, viele Informationen fehlen.

Wenns logisch nicht klappen will, dann habe ich hier ein paar Informationen, die zum intuitiven Finden einer Antwort auf die Frage beitragen mögen, ob Gorbatschow mehr Engel oder mehr Bengel ist.
Gorbatschow besuchte 1984 Grossbritannien. Auf einem offiziellen Empfang schlug er einem der Anwesenden, der eine ihm nicht genehme Bemerkung gemacht hatte, in den Magen. (Deutsch hab ich's leider nicht):

"In case anyone chosses to doubt the accuracy of what follows, the episode is twice described in great detail by the former MP concerned, on tapes which the Author holds in his possession.
In the course of the visit (1984), assorted members of the class the British call ‚the Great and the Good‘ were invited to attend a reception at Westminster to meet Mikhail Gorbachev, amid guarded hints that he was expected to emerge as the next leader of the Soviet Union. Now these Bolsheviks often like to pretend that they do not understand a word of English; and Mikhail Gorbachev is no exception (indeed, on one occasion while lecturing in the United States after leaving office, Gorbachev was observed to reply immediately to a complicated question put to him in English, without waiting for the services of his moustachioed translator). As Gorbachev proceeded along the lines of UK dignitaries, who greeted him in accordance with protocol each one in turn, he overheard one of the ‚Great and the Good‘ make a certain remark (in English) to which he (Gorbachev) took strong exception. Moving up to the offending dignitary, Gorbachev proceeded to punch him hard in the stomach, so that the guest was badly winded. Most of those present observed this horrifying incident, as did the Member of Parliament who was acting as Gorbachev’s guide. Not a word about the incident ever appeared in the usually vigilant British press. In Britain, there is a system of press censorship known as the ‚D-Notice‘ system; if the authorities issue such a notice, the matter covered by it cannot be reported in the press, and it was not.
One would have thought that the British Prime Minister of the day should have been advised that in the light of this uncouth, barbaric behaviour alone, any suggestion that Gorbachev was ‚someone I can do business with‘, as Mrs Thatcher insisted on the record, would have been out of the question. Further, one would have thought that the British Foreign Office would have seen fit to her advise Ministers – on the evidence of this single incident, let alone Gorbachev was anything other than a Bolshevik thug and a disciple of Lenin, were less than credible: instead of which, the episode was hushed up and ‚expunged from the record‘. (Quelle: The European Union Collective, S.18)




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