politician
líder de Soviet Union de 1985 a 1991 (1931–2022)
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Join the roomMikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev fue un político soviético y ruso que fue el último líder de Soviet Union desde 1985 hasta la disolución del país en 1991. Sirvió como General Secretary of the Communist Party desde 1985, y adicionalmente como jefe de estado desde 1988. Ideológicamente, inicialmente se adhirió a Marxism–Leninism, pero se movió hacia social democracy a principios de los años 1990.
“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.”
“Dangers await only those who do not react to life.”
“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.”
“If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.”
“We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.”
“[I]t soon became clear that the museum Gorbachev wanted to build could not exist in Vladimir Putin's Russia.”
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