In an interview in 2019 former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev told me what his reaction had been in 1989 to the fall of the Berlin Wall: “We came to a decision. There mustn’t be bloodshed. We couldn’t allow it.” Camera/edit Matthew Goddard Producer Liza

@mattgodtv @LizaShuvalova Gorbachev was a statesman and visionary. He saw the flaws of communism, the promise of democracy, disarmament and peaceful co-exjstence. We are in dire need of Leadership for today’s world- value and future oriented, principled and with the wellbeing of humanity in the center.

@mattgodtv @LizaShuvalova Except in the Baltics? 🧐

@mattgodtv @LizaShuvalova This way of Civilized Thinking does NOT correspond to the majority of 140 million ruscist living in ruZZia today. Their overwhelming majority suffers from Megalomania & Imperialistic world view. This is the only way they ever knew to exist since Ivan The Terrible: thru VIOLENCE.

@mattgodtv @LizaShuvalova Well he was a liar still.

@mattgodtv @LizaShuvalova The difference between a statesman and a despot.

@mattgodtv @LizaShuvalova You are one of the few reasons to stay on Twitter. Thank you from Canada.

@mattgodtv @LizaShuvalova I met him in Aberdeen in the mid-1990s when he was receiving the freedom of that city. A very charming man. I asked him if he was familiar with Aberdeen. “I have heard of the Aberdeen Angus cow”’.

@mattgodtv @LizaShuvalova This psychopath never forgave the betrayal.

@mattgodtv @LizaShuvalova I was in E.German industrial town couple of years back. The wall may be down, but the Soviet mentality lingers on.