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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
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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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What we're talking about is creating new forms of life on the basis of new values.
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Nature is reminding us that it used to exist without human beings.
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We used to have just one criterion and that was profit, and then another criterion was added - social welfare. Now we have to add the third important criterion, and that is nature and the environment.
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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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I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.
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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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I think the United States is sick. It suffers from the sickness, the disease of being the victor and it needs to cure itself from this disease.
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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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We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.
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I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.
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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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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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I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.
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The socialist tradition....goes back to Jesus Christ, not (Karl) Marx.
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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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My goal was to avoid bloodshed. But unfortunately there was some bloodshed, after all.
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It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.
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Dangers await only those who do not react to life.
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