Few people in modern political history was awarded a lifetime of fame and at the same time subjected to such violent attacks and ridicule, as a man with a simple Russian name Mikhail Gorbachev - "Gorby," as it is more familiarly but with obvious sympathy was called in the West.This man enough titles and awards, his biography in different languages occupy an entire shelf, and eventually, no doubt about it no one will remove a feature film - it's too contradictory zigzags of his political career.None of the decisions taken in the years in power, there was no-one, whether antialcoholic legislative solution or the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.He has held a variety of positions, but if you choose the most "exclusive", it sounds like this: The first President of the USSR.The uniqueness of this position is that it lasted a very short time, less than two years, and then sunk into history with the state itself, the Soviet Union.
first President of the USSR, was elected in March 1990, on the third (note the extraordinary!), The Congress of People's Deputies, who at the time served as the highest organ of state power.In the Soviet Union never existed before political office under the name of "President".In this context, interesting to remember that the hierarchy of the Soviet state was strikingly different from the conventional system in the world, it created a lot of problems in sensitive diplomatic communications.Who, for example, addressed congratulations on the occasion of the main national holiday?Throughout the world, the president of a State wrote to the president of another country, the prime minister - his counterpart, but what about in the case of the Soviet Union?It is clear that the most powerful man in the Soviet Union is not the chairman of the Council of Ministers and the Secretary General of the CPSU Central Committee, but this is a party, not a government position ...
With some stretch of the imagination could be called by the President Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, that is,the head of the supreme legislative body of the Soviet state.The first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev as the time and held this position until his election to the post, which now allows him to assume his counterpart, even the most implacable anti-Communist, for example, the United States President Ronald Reagan.That M. Gorbachev and Reagan are considered the creators of the new world order, all put an end to the era of the "cold war."Name the last President of the USSR did not descend from pages of the most respected newspapers and magazines, praising him as a politician who was able to make the world more secure accommodation.Nobel Peace Prize - the most weighty proof of the recognition of M. Gorbachev in this field.
But first, he is the last president of the USSR in the country often honored with quite different epithets - such as the destroyer, a traitor, a defiler and others.Something in these accusations may be true, but for the most part - is still there.The last word in any case will remain in the history, and yet the mere name of Mikhail Gorbachev is still in effect in some not very smart people as a strong irritant.But he got used to this for a long time and did not pay attention to the flow of charges of defamation and direct - on it and Mikhail Gorbachev, the only one of its kind, the first President of the USSR!
