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    This entire era in the history of the socialist system is over," he wrote. "Today we received messages about the retirement of [China's] Deng Xiaopeng and [Bulgaria's] Todor Zhivkov. Only our 'best friends' Castro, [Romania's Nicolae] Ceausescu, and [North Korea's] Kim Il Sung are still around — people who hate our guts." Savranskaya says that Soviet leaders had decided that closer integration with Europe was the only solution for their deep economic woes. Full Article at NPR
    Today we received messages about the retirement of [China's] Deng Xiaopeng and [Bulgaria's] Todor Zhivkov. Only our 'best friends' Castro, [Romania's Nicolae] Ceausescu, and [North Korea's] Kim Il Sung are still around — people who hate our guts.
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In The End, Fall Of Berlin Wall Was Gorbachev's Call
  1. I want to see our people continue to avoid especially hot rhetoric that might by mistake cause a problem
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  2. I am not an emotional kind of guy
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  3. The United States was in many ways peripheral to the events
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  4. The Berlin Wall has collapsed. This entire era in the history of the socialist system is over
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  5. We're so far away from the real anxiety and fear of the speed of change.
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  6. This is what Gorbachev has done. And he has indeed turned out to be a great leader. He has sensed the pace of history and helped history find a natural channel.
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  7. Looking back, we feel the happiness and the joy
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  8. I'm proud of the way you're handling an extraordinarily difficult problem.
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  9. It has the atmosphere of a festival.
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