The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed is enormous and unforgivable.

I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to be a new form of the ten commandments. They lay the foundation for a sustainable global earth community.

The threat of a world war is no more.

A New World Order is required to deal with the Climate Change crisis.

My goal was to avoid bloodshed. But unfortunately there was some bloodshed, after all.

Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.

Every 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.