Mikhail Gorbachev
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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."
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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 confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race."
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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."
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"A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing."
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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 Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out."
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"I paid too heavy a price for perestroika."
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"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."
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"What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars."