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Quotes from What Is at Stake Now — Mikhail Gorbachev

1931–2022 Russia

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The mutual trust that emerged with the end of the Cold War was severely shaken a few years later by NATO's decision to expand to the east. Russia had no option but to draw its own conclusions from that.

What Is at Stake Now (2020)

Nuclear weapons are like a rifle hanging on the wall in a play. We did not write the play, we are not staging it and we do not know what the author intends. Anyone could take the rifle from the wall at any time.

What Is at Stake Now (2020)

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