Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes

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.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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• 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.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • World
  • Cold
  • Developing