Perestroika: Socialist Failure or Betrayal From Within? Featuring Former Politician Sazhi Umalatova

Freedom! Openness! Democracy! That’s what first comes to mind for most Western people when they hear the name “Mikhail Gorbachev“ or his “Perestroika“ policies of the late-USSR. But millions of people around the world have different associations. For them - Perestroika is associated with chaos, poverty, and the destruction of everything that the first country run by the working class in history worked towards and fought for over a 70-year-period. Sazhi Umalatova is a religious Chechen woman, former soviet politician, and the only member of the RSFSR’s Congress of People’s Deputies to openly defy Gorbachev and his disastrous policies. TheRevolutionReport was able to get an interview with Mrs. Umalatova - you can find it in this video! Relevant Links: RT Documentary on fall of the USSR (also featuring Sazhi Umalatova): Sazhi Umalatova’s speech in def