RIA Novosti: Gorbachev says Putin’s latest speech questioning U.S. dominance best ever

(RIA Novosti – Moscow, October 26, 2014) The first president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, thinks that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Valdai [Valday] speech was one of the strongest of his period in power.

On Friday [24 October] the head of state gave a speech to participants in the Valdai discussion club in Sochi, in which he criticized the West’s policy, described the global problems that exist and called for equal dialogue and respect for Russia’s position.

“The speech was fantastic. I don’t think there has been such a speech in all the years of Putin’s rule. Perhaps also because the situation demands this. Basically, I agree with all the ideas expressed by him,” Gorbachev told RIA Novosti.

He added that he plans to acquaint himself with the entire discussion that followed the head of state’s speech.

In the level of openness with which the president confronted the authors of the idea of “global domination”, above all the US, Putin’s speech has been compared with his famous speech at the security conference in Munich in 2007, where the Russian leader warned of the danger of the unilateral proliferation of strategic weapons by the Americans. But in Sochi the head of the Russian state emphasized that, despite the fact that the two speeches had something in common, other theses were put forward in the Valdai speech, as the situation has changed since then.

Experts concurred in the opinion that the conversation was very direct, and that Putin was the first world leader to call the processes that are occurring in the world at the moment by their names.