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Mikhaïl Sergueïevitch Gorbatchev ou Gorbatchov , né le 2 mars 1931 à Privolnoïe dans l'actuel kraï de Stavropol, est un homme d'État soviétique et russe qui dirigea l'URSS entre 1985 et 1991.

Résolument réformateur, il s'engagea à l'extérieur vers la fin de la guerre froide, et lança à l'intérieur la libéralisation économique, culturelle et politique connue sous les noms de perestroïka et de glasnost. Impuissant à maîtriser les évolutions qu'il avait lui-même enclenchées, sa démission marqua le point final de l'implosion de l'URSS, précédée de deux ans par l'effondrement des régimes communistes en Europe de l'Est. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. mars 1931  •  Autres noms Michail Gorbačov
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“Les politiciens et les chefs militaires sont de plus en plus belligérants et les doctrines de défense plus dangereuses. Les commentateurs et les personnalités télévisuelles joignent le chœur belliqueux. Tout se passe comme si le monde se préparait à la guerre. […] Débarrasser le monde de cette peur signifie rendre les gens plus libres. Cela devrait être un objectif commun. Beaucoup d’autres problèmes seraient alors plus faciles à résoudre. Il est maintenant temps de décider et d’agir.”

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Politicians and military leaders sound increasingly belligerent and defense doctrines more dangerous. Commentators and TV personalities are joining the bellicose chorus. It all looks as if the world is preparing for war. […] Ridding the world of this fear means making people freer. This should become a common goal. Many other problems would then be easier to resolve. The time to decide and act is now.
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Mikhaïl Gorbatchev: Citations en anglais

“The aims and ideals of the Soviet revolution inspired the patriotic enthusiasm of millions of people in the 1930s, during World War II, and in the postwar reconstruction period. This explains the Soviet Union's great leap forward, the achievement of a high level of industrial capacity in a very short time, the transformation of the Soviet Union into a major power in terms of science and culture. The historic victory in the Great Patriotic War against Nazism, which was a surprise not only for Hitler but also for the Western democracies is also explained by what we have said above. All this is true. But the historical truth is also that the regime and the system abused the faith of the people in these high ideals, turning them to its own advantage. Rule by the people, equality, justice, and the promise of a happy future — all these ideas were utilized for the sake of maintaining and strengthening totalitarianism.”

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Mikhail Gorbachev

1990s, On My Country and the World (1999)

“To demonize all Soviet "leaders" at all levels, to portray them as unqualified villains and evildoers, unprincipled self-seeking scoundrels who were indifferent to the interests and needs of the people — that is a shallow and frivolous approach. Of course there were villains, quite a few of them. But most of those who came to power had the intention of serving the "toiling masses" from which they themselves had come. That the system rendered their aspirations useless, reduced their efforts to nothing, and ultimately snuffed out their finer impulses — that is a separate question.”

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Mikhail Gorbachev

1990s, On My Country and the World (1999)

“In the end, the “model” that came into existence in the USSR was not socialist but totalitarian. This is a serious matter to be reflected on by all who seriously aspire to progress for the benefit of the human race.”

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Mikhail Gorbachev

1990s, On My Country and the World (1999)

“The Berlin wall can disappear when those conditions that created it fall away.”

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Mikhail Gorbachev

As quoted in The New York Times (16 June 1989) https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/16/world/a-gorbachev-hint-for-berlin-wall.html <br class="br">1980s

“It is time to consign to oblivion the cold war postulates when Europe was viewed as an arena of confrontation divided into "spheres of influence" and someone else's "forward-based defences", as an object of military confrontation — namely a theatre of war.”

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Mikhail Gorbachev

1980s, Council of Europe address (1989)

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