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The threat of a world war is no more.

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
Jurist
Politician
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Krasnogvardeysky District
Stavropol Krai
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
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To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.
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Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.
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America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.
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Those who are late will be punished by life itself.
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My goal was to avoid bloodshed. But unfortunately there was some bloodshed, after all.
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The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
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In October 1917, we parted with the old world, rejecting it once and for all. We are moving toward a new world, a world of Communism. We shall never turn off that road.
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Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.
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It sometimes seems to me that some of our Western partners do not want Russia to fully recover. They would like Russia to be in a subdued state, and they want Russian resources to be used for the benefit of the U.S. economy.
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For a new type of progress throughout the world to become a reality, everyone must change. Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order.
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Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.
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