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You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: March 2
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Former General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of The Soviet Union
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Krasnogvardeysky District
Stavropol Krai
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My goal was to avoid bloodshed. But unfortunately there was some bloodshed, after all.
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