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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.
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The Soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.
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Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
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Man is beginning to explore the galaxy. But how much remains undone on earth?
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If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.
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Americans have a severe disease — worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.
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I began to feel the desire for something more; I wanted to do something to make things better.
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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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I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.
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I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.
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We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs
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The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
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It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction
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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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We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah's Ark.
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Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.
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The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy... We want more socialism and, therefore, more democracy.
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For a new type of progress throughout the world to become a reality, everyone must change. Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order.
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It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.
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The more I reflect on the current world developments, the more I become convinced that the world needs perestroika no less than the Soviet Union needs it.
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I express the very deepest condolences to the family of the deceased on whose shoulders rest major events for the good of the country and serious mistakes.
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The idea of restructuring [perestroika]…combines continuity and innovation, the historical experience of Bolshevism and the contemporaneity of socialism.
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After leaving the Kremlin…my conscience was clear. The promise I gave to the people when I started the process of perestroika was kept: I gave them freedom.
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The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed is enormous and unforgivable.
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In October 1917, we parted with the old world, rejecting it once and for all. We are moving toward a new world, a world of Communism. We shall never turn off that road.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
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Born:
March 2, 1931
Died:
August 30, 2022
(aged 91)
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