Mikhail Gorbachev, as a person somewhat responsible for collapse of USSR, had an incentive to paint USSR in a certain light in his interview, wouldn't you agree

Mikhail Gorbachev, as a person somewhat responsible for collapse of USSR, had an incentive to paint USSR in a certain light in his interview, wouldn't you agree? I grew in USSR (I was born in 1971 in Moscow) and I do not remember any scarcity of stockings.