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Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
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I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.
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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.
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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
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Preparing for my address I found in an old Russian encyclopedia a definition of "peace" as a "commune" — the traditional cell of Russian peasant life. I saw in that definition the people's profound understanding of peace as harmony, concord, mutual help, and cooperation.
This understanding is embodied in the canons of world religions and in the works of philosophers from antiquity to our time.
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A period of transition to a new quality in all spheres of society's life is accompanied by painful phenomena. When we were initiating perestroika we failed to properly assess and foresee everything. Our society turned out to be hard to move off the ground, not ready for major changes which affect people's vital interests and make them leave behind everything to which they had become accustomed over many years. In the beginning we imprudently generated great expectations, without taking into account the fact that it takes time for people to realize that all have to live and work differently, to stop expecting that new life would be given from above.
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After a time of rampant separatism and euphoria, when almost every village proclaimed sovereignty, a centripetal force is beginning to gather momentum, based on a more sensible view of existing realities and the risks involved. And this is what counts most now. There is a growing will to achieve consensus, and a growing understanding that we have a State, a country, a common life. This is what must be preserved first of all.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Born:
March 2, 1931
Died:
August 30, 2022
(aged 91)
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