United states Quotes by Mikhail Gorbachev

8 United states quotes by Mikhail Gorbachev

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Gorbachev’s short reflections on America’s global role echo his Cold‑War experience and hopes for future cooperation.

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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…

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One of the reasons why this country undertook military action in Iraq was that there are quite a few problems here, and…

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The United States found dozens of billions of dollars for military action in Iraq, so it should certainly be able to find…

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I think the United States is sick. It suffers from the sickness, the disease of being the victor and it needs to…

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Some think that Russia should become a kind of a U.S. province, where it should supply natural resources to the United States…

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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…

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Though representatives of many ethnic groups came together in the United States, English became their common language. Apparently, this was a natural…

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

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Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for…

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We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare is a struggle for winning people's minds.

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The most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet Union in…

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In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.

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The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.

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

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The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.

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In Russia, there are those who make their money in criminal ways, but I earn everything myself.

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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…

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What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and…

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Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.

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For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy.

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A new world order is taking shape so fast that governments as well as private citizens find it difficult just to absorb the gallop…

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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…

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The threat of environmental crisis is the 'international disaster key' to unlock the New World Order.

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