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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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Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
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Globalization was supposed to break down barriers between continents and bring all peoples together. But what kind of globalization do we have with over one billion people on the planet not having safe water to drink?
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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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A New World Order is required to deal with the Climate Change crisis.
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The socialist tradition....goes back to Jesus Christ, not (Karl) Marx.
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Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.
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The opponents of perestroika had suffered a defeat, and then they organized the coup.
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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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Sometimes its difficult to accept, to recognise ones own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.
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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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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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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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Contemporary social democracy is what I believe is the right concept.
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Nature is reminding us that it used to exist without human beings.
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Democracy must learn to defend itself.
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If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.
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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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The threat of a world war is no more.
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Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.
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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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