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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.

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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Stavropol Krai
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