Mikhail Gorbachev — "I am a fighter. I will continue to fight for my ideals."
I am a fighter. I will continue to fight for my ideals.
I am a fighter. I will continue to fight for my ideals.
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"I am not afraid of glasnost. I am not afraid of criticism. I am not afraid of democracy."
"I don't know what kind of God I believe in, but I believe in something."
"The alternative to perestroika is stagnation and decline. We have no other choice."
"I am not a saint. I have made mistakes."
"The past is over. The future is now."
Final General Secretary of the Soviet Union whose glasnost and perestroika reforms led to the USSR's dissolution and the end of the Cold War. Closely associated with Boris Yeltsin (his domestic rival and successor as Russian leader) and Ronald Reagan (Cold War counterpart and arms-control partner). For an intellectual contrast, see Vladimir Putin, Russian president (2000-2008, 2012-) — Putin has publicly called the Soviet collapse 'the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century' — Gorbachev's signature achievement. Putin's two-decade political project has been organized around reversing Gorbachev's liberalization.
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