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  Every country should conduct its own reforms, should develop its own model, taking into account the experience of other countries, whether close neighbours or far away countries.

  3.8 · 7 votes · 14 reads

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

  3.7 · 8 votes · 78 reads

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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.

  4.1 · 14 votes · 80 reads

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  I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

  4.3 · 40 votes · 138 reads

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  I couldn't wait to get to the most powerful position, because I thought then I would be able to fix problems that only the leader can fix. But when I got there, I realized we needed revolutionary change.

  3.3 · 52 votes · 107 reads

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  I don't think Russia is setting this as a goal; I don't think this should be Russia's goal. I think even the United States doesn't need to be a superpower. China doesn't need to be a superpower. It's a different world.

  3.1 · 15 votes · 60 reads

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• Virtues

  I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered as a result of dust storms, water erosion and wind erosion; I saw the effect of that on life - on human life.

  3.9 · 64 votes · 163 reads

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  I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.

  3.0 · 41 votes · 133 reads

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  I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God.

  4.6 · 6 votes · 63 reads

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  I think God has some mechanism that he uses to punish those that make mistakes.

  3.8 · 61 votes · 32 reads

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• Society

  I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.

  4.9 · 33 votes · 169 reads

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  I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them a chance, in the media, in politics, in democracy.

  4.2 · 10 votes · 31 reads

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  If current technological processes continue without change, the environment will change, and we, the human species, will either have to mutate or even die, to disappear, as many species have disappeared.

  4.0 · 16 votes · 30 reads

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

  3.3 · 53 votes · 55 reads

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

  3.0 · 64 votes · 121 reads

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

  3.4 · 5 votes · 174 reads

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  Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can't resolve the problem of women's pantyhose. There's no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating t

  4.9 · 49 votes · 189 reads

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• Thought and Reason

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

  3.4 · 50 votes · 11 reads

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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.'

  3.3 · 7 votes · 178 reads

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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.

  3.3 · 45 votes · 67 reads

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

  4.5 · 39 votes · 135 reads

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

  4.4 · 63 votes · 24 reads

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

  4.5 · 19 votes · 173 reads

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  On the day I became Soviet leader, in March 1985, I had a special meeting with the leaders of the Warsaw Pact countries and told them: 'You are independent, and we are independent. You are responsible for your policies, we are responsible for ours. We wil

  3.5 · 50 votes · 33 reads

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  Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.

  3.8 · 19 votes · 143 reads

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  Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.

  3.8 · 27 votes · 136 reads

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  Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor.

  3.5 · 27 votes · 118 reads

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  Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face.

  3.0 · 19 votes · 116 reads

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  Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a most resolute way.

  4.2 · 8 votes · 66 reads

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• Virtues

  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.

  3.1 · 51 votes · 129 reads

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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.

  4.2 · 10 votes · 73 reads

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

  3.3 · 15 votes · 55 reads

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  The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.

  4.8 · 40 votes · 83 reads

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  The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

  4.9 · 14 votes · 95 reads

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  There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.

  4.6 · 13 votes · 155 reads

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

  4.4 · 50 votes · 164 reads

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  We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological c

  4.0 · 27 votes · 152 reads

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  What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.

  4.3 · 38 votes · 150 reads

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  What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

  4.6 · 11 votes · 133 reads

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  Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.

  4.9 · 32 votes · 113 reads

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