The opponents of perestroika had suffered a defeat, and then they organized the coup.
Mikhail GorbachevThe threat of environmental crisis is the 'international disaster key' to unlock the New World Order.
Mikhail GorbachevEvery part of our program of perestroika - and the program as a whole, for that matter - is fully based on the principle of more socialism and more democracy.
Mikhail GorbachevIt seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'
Mikhail GorbachevOne of the reasons why this country undertook military action in Iraq was that there are quite a few problems here, and perhaps attention needed to be deflected from those problems. It sometimes seems that the U.S. economy works successfully only if it gets a stimulus from the defense industry. So perhaps in addition to showing the power and the might of the United States internationally, another reason was to help the defense industry and to help the U.S. economy recover.
Mikhail Gorbachev