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" I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered as a result of dust storms, water erosion and wind erosion; I saw the effect of that on life - on human life. "

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" Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a most resolute way. "

Mikhail Gorbachev

Only

Union

" I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God. "

" Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight. "

" 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. "

" A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing. "

" Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face. "

" It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.' "

" More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life. "

" My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could. "

" I think God has some mechanism that he uses to punish those that make mistakes. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that. "

Mikhail Gorbachev

Arrogance

Mistakes

" On the day I became Soviet leader, in March 1985, I had a special meeting with the leaders of the Warsaw Pact countries and told them: 'You are independent, and we are independent. You are responsible for your policies, we are responsible for ours. We will not intervene in your affairs, I promise you.' "

" What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars. "

" Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind. "

" 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. "

" I paid too heavy a price for perestroika. "

" You cannot put Russia down on its knees and hold it there because Russia will ultimately pull out. "

" The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy. "

" If not me, who? And if not now, when? "

Mikhail Gorbachev

Now

Who

" 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. "

" I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal. "

Mikhail Gorbachev

May

I Am

" 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. "

" I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them a chance, in the media, in politics, in democracy. "

" Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can't resolve the problem of women's pantyhose. There's no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government. "

" If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum. "

" 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. "

" Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth. "

" It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction. "

" There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy. "