Mikhail Gorbachev

Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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Popular and sensitive, with outstanding people skills. Externally focused, with real concern for how others think and feel. Usually dislike being alone. They see everything from the human angle, and dislike impersonal analysis. Very effective at managing people issues, and leading group discussions. Interested in serving others, and probably place the needs of others over their own needs.

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Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman. He was the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union, having been General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, when the party was dissolved.

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Quotes by Mikhail Gorbachev

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.

I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.

I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.

I couldn't wait to get to the most powerful position, because I thought then I would be able to fix problems that only the leader can fix. But when I got there, I realized we needed revolutionary change.

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