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An investor—you're an owner. we got this, babe. that means that your dreams are ours too. and our financial planning tools can help you reach them. that's the value of ownership. gorbachev, the leader who oversaw the collapse of the soviet union was laid to rest today. putin was not there. he paid his respects thursday, but was a no show for the public service at the house of unions. >> reporter: what you can see here is that this is obviously a very solemn ceremony. we're in the house of unions in the hall of column. it's a very famous hall here in moscow. we are close to the russian parl...

View as a demonstration and they try to break it up, but here, they had to allow thousands of people, peacefully, quietly, many of them weeping, to come and pay their final respects. it was a tribute to gorbachev, but it was also a demonstration against putin. >> and putin is called the break up of the soviet union the greatest geopolitical disaster of the century. what do you think gorbachev would make of how russia is being governed by putin today? >> i think he would be appalled. he'd be disgusted. he'd be disheartened. saddened. frustrated. putin is reversing everything that gorbachev trie...

Cemetery here in moscow. laid to rest next to his wife whom he loved very much until she passed away in 1999. >> all right, fred. thank you. as you just heard fred talking about there, gorbachev is seen as a hero to many in the west, but was a divisive figure in his own country. some russians praising him for opening up russia's economy. others resenting him for the soviet union's collapse. for more on his complex legacy, we're going to turn now to political scientist and author of gorbachev, his life and times. william calvin. it's great to see you. i know you wrote a fascinating piece in pol...

So soviet comisars. stalin got rid of tens of millions of innocent people. other leaders didn't hesitate to use force and violence. this is what i mean by an indecent history. and along comes gorbachev. a man who wants to demock ratize russia. who wants to reduce force and violence, if not eliminate it. both within the soviet union and around the world. it was a bad fit, one might say. he accomplished a lot for a while, but then things began to fall apart. i just might mention one of the things that i heard people say. people who don't like gorbachev. they said he didn't listen and he changed ...