I have been suspected of utopian thinking more than once, and particularly when five years ago I proposed the elimination of nuclear weapons by the year 2000 and joint efforts to create a system of international security. It may well be that by that date it will not have happened. But look, merely five years have passed and have we not actually and noticeably moved in that direction?
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Mikhail Gorbachev
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1985–1991; President of the Soviet Union 1990–1991
Soviet Union / Russia · 1931–2022
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Led the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 as General Secretary of the Communist Party and, from 1990, as President. Introduced the domestic reform programmes known as perestroika and glasnost. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990.
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Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.
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