Limited Time Offer
Premium members can get their quote collection automatically imported into their Quotewise collections.
The Baltic republics, because of their history and other characteristics, could enjoy special status in the Union. However, the 'sovereignization' of… - Mikhail Gorbachev
" "The Baltic republics, because of their history and other characteristics, could enjoy special status in the Union. However, the 'sovereignization' of Russia scuttled the search for a new formula for relations with the Baltic republics in a reformed Union. It caused a chain reaction, during which analogous enactments were passed by all of the Union republics and later autonomous republics. A 'parade of sovereignties' had begun. The only means of preventing the collapse of the Union was the preparation without delay of a new Union Treaty.
English
Collect this quote
About Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Russian: Михаи́л Серге́евич Горбачёв, IPA: [gərbəˈtɕof], commonly anglicized as Gorbachev; 2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was General Secretary of the Communist Party and served as leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. His attempts at reform helped to end the Cold War, but also ended the political supremacy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and dissolved the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990.
Biography information from Wikiquote
Also Known As
Native Name:
Михаил Сергеевич Горбачёв
Also Known As:
Gorby
Alternative Names:
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
•
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachyov
•
Mikhail Gorbachyov
•
Mikhail Gorbachov
•
Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev
•
M. Gorbachev
•
M.S. Gorbachev
•
Gorbachev
Related quotes. More quotes will automatically load as you scroll down, or you can use the load more buttons.
Additional quotes by Mikhail Gorbachev
Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations. Peace is movement towards globality and universality of civilization. Never before has the idea that peace is indivisible been so true as it is now. Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences. And, ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.
PREMIUM FEATURE
Advanced Search Filters
Filter search results by source, date, and more with our premium search tools.
For a number of years the deeds and actions of party and government bodies trailed behind the needs of the times and of life. The problems in the country's development built up more rapidly than they were being solved. The inertness and stiffness of the forms and methods of administration, the decline of dynamism in our work and an escalation of bureaucracy - all this was doing no small damage. Signs of stagnation had begun to surface in the life of the society. The situation called for change, but a peculiar psychology - How to improve things without changing anything? - took the upper hand. But that cannot be done, comrades. Stop for an instant, as they say, and you fall behind a mile.
Loading...