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America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.
Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
Democracy must learn to defend i... (more Mikhail Gorbachev quotes)
In 1988, he was named Time Magazine's Man of the Year.
In 1985, he was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party.
He was selected as a Representative to the Supreme Soviet in 1974.
He attended Moscow University, the oldest university in Russia.
He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.... (more Mikhail Gorbachev trivia)
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