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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
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
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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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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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Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty.
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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.
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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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In our discussions here at the forum there was no trace of the futile debate about what is better, capitalism or socialism...We should seek a synthesis of ideas and values that have proven their viability.
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I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.
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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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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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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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The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
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The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.
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People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.
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My goal was to avoid bloodshed. But unfortunately there was some bloodshed, after all.
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I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.
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You are fortunate to live here. If I were your President, I would levy a tax on you for living in San Francisco!
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I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.
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Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for outward consumption. There will be no significant internal changes in the Soviet Union, other than for cosmetic purposes. Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep.
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The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
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The socialist tradition....goes back to Jesus Christ, not (Karl) Marx.
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