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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
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If you want Russia to be a real fully developed partner, then America should invest in Russia and activate Russia as a strong nation.
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Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency in using scientific achievements for economic needs. Many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality.
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We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare is a struggle for winning people's minds.
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On the day I became Soviet leader, in March 1985, I had a special meeting with the leaders of the Warsaw Pact countries and told them: 'You are independent, and we are independent. You are responsible for your policies, we are responsible for ours. We will not intervene in your affairs, I promise you.'
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You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.
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My goal was to avoid bloodshed. But unfortunately there was some bloodshed, after all.
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A New World Order is required to deal with the Climate Change crisis.
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History punishes those that come late to it.
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Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.
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I began to feel the desire for something more I wanted to do something to make things better.
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We desperately need to recognise that we are the guests, not the masters, of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and benefits to all people, and bound by the limits of nature herself rather than the limits of technology and consumerism.
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The Union was destroyed against the will of the people, and it was done deliberately - with the participation of the Russian leadership, on the one hand, and that of the putschists, on the other.
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We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.
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If the Russian word perestroika has easily entered the international lexicon, this is due to more than just interest in what is going on in the Soviet Union. Now the whole world needs restructuring, i.e. progressive development, a fundamental change.
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The opponents of perestroika had suffered a defeat, and then they organized the coup.
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A new world order is taking shape so fast that governments as well as private citizens find it difficult just to absorb the gallop of events.
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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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I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.
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I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.
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We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren't enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.
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