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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: March 2
Environmentalist
Former General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of The Soviet Union
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Politician
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Krasnogvardeysky District
Stavropol Krai
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A new generation of more educated people started to be active. Then society required freedom, society demanded freedom.
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My goal was to avoid bloodshed. But unfortunately there was some bloodshed, after all.
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