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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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The most important thing is who counts the votes.
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Democracy must learn to defend itself.
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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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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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To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.
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I certainly wouldn't say that we loved the arms race. Trillions of dollars were used to stoke it. For our economy, which was smaller in size than the American economy, it was a burden. But one cannot agree with the statement that the arms race played the key role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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The opponents of perestroika had suffered a defeat, and then they organized the coup.
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It is my firm belief that the infinite and uncontrollable fury of nuclear weapons should never be held in the hands of any mere mortal ever again, for any reason.
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We were nearly one of the last to realize that in the age of information science the most expensive asset is knowledge.
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Americans have a severe disease - worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.
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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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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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It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.
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It is really important to solve the problem of rational utilization and distribution of wate supplies. I dare say, the shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.
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According to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible.... The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy and revives the Leninist concept of socialist construction both in theory and in practice. We want more socialism and, therefore, more democracy.
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Nature is reminding us that it used to exist without human beings.
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Those who are late will be punished by life itself.
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What we're talking about is creating new forms of life on the basis of new values.
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Life punishes those who come too late.
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People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.
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