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Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government supp...

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Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The ...

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America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealis...

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What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.

I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.

A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most imp...

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The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it ca...

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I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then ...

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I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... T...

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The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.

I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them...

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We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical...

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If not me, who? And if not now, when?

There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certa...

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Born: 1931-03-02

Died: N/A

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Russian: Михаи́л Серге́евич Горбачёв, IPA: [gərbəˈtɕof], commonly anglicized as Gorbachev; 2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was General Secretary of the Communist Party and served as leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. His attempts at reform helped to end the Cold War, but also ended the political supremacy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and dissolved the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990.More