Mikhail Gorbachev — "We are moving towards a new world, a world of communism. We will never turn from…"
We are moving towards a new world, a world of communism. We will never turn from this path.
We are moving towards a new world, a world of communism. We will never turn from this path.
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"We cannot build socialism with empty stomachs."
"We need glasnost, we need perestroika, we need democracy."
"I consider myself a lucky man. I have lived to see a new world."
"I am not interested in power for power's sake. I am interested in serving the people."
"The Soviet Union is not an empire. It is a multinational state."
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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