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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.

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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Krasnogvardeysky District
Stavropol Krai
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