Michael Gorbachev: "It is necessary to rescue it. The rest - is minor".
Michael Gorbachev: "It is necessary to rescue it. The rest - is minor".
The consultation of doctors gives hope.
The ex-president of the USSR since July, 25th lives in German small town Muenster.
At it unique desire: to save up wife Raisa, which
There passes a painful course of chemotherapy in the local university
To clinic.
The DAYS spent by Michael Gorbachev in a historical city,
Where in 1648 the end to 30-year-old war has been put, it is not enough
Differ one from another. He has breakfast in hotel, not turning
Attention to lake and idyllic landscape round it, and then in
Support of two bodyguards goes on foot to clinic, where
The wife lays. About midnight it comes back in hotel where for it wait
The letters which have collected for a day, notes, the telegrammes full of words
Sympathy and support.
If you wish to see Gorbachev - it is necessary to wait for it at an input
In hotel. It is possible to take it by surprise in the morning when it leaves,
Or in the evening when comes back. Michael Sergeevich at all
Responds to phone calls, despite the fact that what at it
Magnificent system of a mobile communication. But the former president of the USSR
It is glad to old friends.
"It is necessary to rescue it. All the rest - is minor", - he speaks
During a breakfast with Fjamettoj Kukurnia and with me. Fjametta now
Works in Rome, before it was the correspondent of the newspaper "La
Republika "in Moscow, just in days of reorganisation when I was
The staff reporter "Ale Pais" in the same place. We have together gone through some
The exciting moments of history, such as on August, 19th, 1991.
Fjametta and I have arrived to see Michael Sergeevicha to Muenster not
Only as journalists, but first of all as the people wishing
To feel sympathy and support in such difficult for Gorbachevyh
The moment.
The Russian authorities with delay have responded to a trouble,
Fallen down, according to Michael Sergeevicha, "as snow in
June ". Gorbachevy 10 days were in Muenster, when the Kremlin
Began to search for numbers of their phones. In July the former president of the USSR not
The smog achieves, that to it have given spetssamolet for
Transportations of the wife to Muenster: Paul Borodina, upravdelami
The president of Russia, was not in Moscow, and anybody another did not want
To make the decision. Gorbachev has been compelled to address to one of
The European friends, to the Greek businessman, immediately
Sent the small plane for Gorbachev's delivery with the wife in
Germany.
Gorbachev is not intended to use illness of the wife in the political
The purposes. It bears the burden with advantage, anybody and in what not
Reproaching and not condemning. On the contrary - it is very grateful to all, who
Shows interest to health of his wife, even if this interest
Proceeds from the Kremlin.
The diagnosis "a sharp leukaemia" has been put Raisa Maksimovne
The Russian doctors in July when Gorbachevy have returned from
Australia. Before she complained of fast fatigue, but
Analyses showed nothing. Illness has broken all plans
Gorbachevyh: in September they assumed to have a rest on island
Menorka and to visit Seville under invitation Felipe Gonsalesa.
Now Gorbachev cannot even tell, whether it will be present
On celebrations on the occasion of the 10 anniversary of falling of the Berlin wall.
Michael Sergeevicha's mood depends on a state of health
Raisas Maksimovny. In the evening it seems tired. Having had a rest,
Shows vivacity of spirit. Its vital force, energy and
Interest to all event in the world are simply improbable. For
He speaks to morning coffee about the literature and the politician, about a situation in
To Yugoslavia and the new doctrine of NATO.
Raisa Maksimovna knows about the illness. First, German
Physicians have got used to inform diagnoses to the patients, with what
Terrible these diagnoses were. Secondly, Gorbachev is not able
To deceive the wife. And, thirdly, Raisa Maksimovna understands all
Itself. "What is the time we should transfer this test?
It is so much tests we already have overcome for the life... "- such
There were Raisa Maksimovny's first words to the husband after it
Has learnt about the diagnosis (Gorbachev told about it to the newspaper "Velt am
Zontag ").
Raisa Gorbachev has played the USSR a huge role. It became the first
"The first lady". After Raisa Maksimovny Russia any the head
Cannot hide the wife any more even if very much it will want.
But, in my opinion, at Gorbachevyh there is a merit more important, than
Creation of an image of the first Soviet lady. They have managed to show open
To the world tenderness and love to each other, and this demonstration of love
Has revolutionary value because destroys the patriarchal
The customs dominating in a political and public life of Russia.
In St.-Petersburg, during a pre-election trip in 1996, I
Has paid attention to how they communicated. They simply kept
For hands (and did it not specially, not deliberately - before
Television cameras). Kept for hands and exchanged sights.
Members of the Political bureau as Raisa Maksimovna told to me, could
To endure even some mistresses at Gorbachev, but could not
To understand, that Gorbachev really likes the wife and not
Hesitates of the feeling.
In the biography Gorbachev tells about a dream, which
Has dreamt Raisa Maksimovne when they have got married.... Both
Appear at the bottom of a deep dark well and with big
Difficulties start to rise to light. Hands are covered with wounds,
Bleed, the pain is intolerable. Suddenly Raisa stumbles and
Breaks downwards, but Michael picks up it, and, having risen on
Surface, both continue to go on road, conducting to bright,
To the sun blinding eye. Black terrible shades surround them from all
The parties, but they go and go forward, having joined hands... Gorbachev
Very much worries, when recollects this episode. Pilar BONET,
The correspondent of the Spanish newspaper "Ale Pais" in Germany - for "the General
Newspapers ".
PILAR BONET.
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