[yc12340]

Gorbachev is directly responsible for collapse of USSR, — he ruled it when it collapsed. So he is responsible for both of the disasters.

Shouldn't you be a little skeptical, when he tries to blame one of his disasters for another?

[arethuza]

Of course I'm sceptical - but given other accounts of the times that I have read I haven't seen anything in his account that seems fundamentally wrong.