Nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.
Я считал тогда и считаю сейчас, что ядерная война недопустима — её невозможно выиграть.
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Last leader of the Soviet Union (1931-2022). Elected General Secretary of the Communist Party in 1985 at age 54, he launched perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness), negotiated the INF Treaty with Ronald Reagan, allowed Eastern Europe to fall in 1989, and accepted German reunification. He won the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize but presided over the dissolution of the USSR in December 1991 against his own wishes - a hero in the West, a controversial figure in Russia.
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Mikhail Gorbachev's Other Quotes
He who is late will be punished by history.
We cannot live in the old way, and I propose to carry out a radical restructuring of all sides of our society's life.
We are now living in a new world. An end has been put to the Cold War and the arms race, as well as to the mad militarisation of our country, which crippled our economy.
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We choose freedom.
-- Konrad Adenauer
It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.
-- Harry S. Truman
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
-- Ronald Reagan
The march of freedom and democracy will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history.
-- Ronald Reagan
I am a Berliner.
-- John F. Kennedy