Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev; born 2 March 1931) is a former Soviet statesman. He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 when the party was dissolved. He served as the country's head of state from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991. He was the only General Secretary in the history of the Soviet Union to have been born after the October...
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth2 March 1931
CityPrivolnoye, Russia
philosophy tradition conviction
We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs
air organization democracy
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life
jesus tradition christ
The socialist tradition....goes back to Jesus Christ, not (Karl) Marx.
too-late berlin-wall late
Life punishes those who come too late.
diversity people creative
People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.
technology people cost
We desperately need to recognize that we are the guests not the masters of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and benefits to all people, and bound by the limits of nature herself rather than the limits of technology and consumerism.
faces sometimes face-to-face
Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face
unconditional-love people democracy
The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.
cutting ebola people
We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren't enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.
cutting people united-states
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.
earth ships ark
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.
civilization people dawn
The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
ideas justice brotherhood
Communist ideology in its pure form is akin to Christianity. Its main ideas are the brotherhood of all peoples irrespective of their nationality, justice and equality, peace, and an end to all hostility between peoples.
war america president
Every US President has to have a war.