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In the name of Communism we abandoned basic human values. So when I came to power in Russia I started to restore those values; values of "openness" and freedom.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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We are witnessing most profound social change.

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Further world progress is now possible only through the search for a consensus of all mankind, in movement toward a new world order.

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