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Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a most resolute way.
There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.
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.
What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.
Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.
You cannot put Russia down on its knees and hold it there because Russia will ultimately pull out.
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