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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
Jurist
Politician
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Krasnogvardeysky District
Stavropol Krai
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The threat of a world war is no more.
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The socialist tradition....goes back to Jesus Christ, not (Karl) Marx.
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I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.
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The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously.
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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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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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Life punishes those who come too late.
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We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare is a struggle for winning people's minds.
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