Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes

You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.

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• You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Morning
  • Sleep
  • Economic