Mikhail Gorbachev (1931) General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Speech to the 27th Party Congress, Moscow (25 February 1986)
1980s
“The Soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.”
Speech (July 1988)
1980s
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