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Mikhail Gorbachev, the transformative Russian statesman, ushered in a new era of reform and openness in the Soviet Union with his policies of perestroika and glasnost. As the last leader of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev's bold leadership and commitment to democracy changed the course of history, ending the Cold War and paving the way for a new era of global cooperation.
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"If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today."

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"Democracy must learn to defend itself."

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"My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could."

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"What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars."

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"I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal."

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"The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy."

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"If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum."

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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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"We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs."

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"Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life."

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"More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life."

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"Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind."

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

Now,
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"Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth."

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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 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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"It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction."

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"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization."

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"The world will not accept dictatorship or domination."

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"It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'"

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"America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard."

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