Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes
We often argued but always understood each other.
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While adhering to his convictions, with which one could agree or disagree, he was not dogmatic; he was looking for negotiations and cooperation. And this was the most important thing to me; he had the trust of the American people.
- Mikhail Gorbachev
[Gorbachev, who once said the collapse of the Iron Curtain would have been impossible without the pope, said the pontiff condemned communism during the two's first meeting in 1989, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall.] We had a really interesting, albeit perhaps too emotional conversation... He told me he ... was very, very critical of communism.
- Mikhail Gorbachev
