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An old russian woman goes into kremlin, gets an audience with mikhail gorbachev and says, in america anyone can go to the white house, walk up to reagan's desk and say, 'i don't like the way you are running the country.' gorbachev replied, you can do the same thing in the soviet union. you can go into the kremlin, walk up to my desk and say 'i don't like the way reagan is running his country.'
-Ronald Reagan
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An Old Russian Woman Goes Into Kremlin,

Ronald Reagan
An old russian woman goes into kremlin, gets an audience with mikhail gorbachev and says, in america anyone can go to the white house, walk up to reagan's desk and say, 'i don't like the way you are running the country.' gorbachev replied, you can do the same thing in the soviet union. you can go into the kremlin, walk up to my desk and say 'i don't like the way reagan is running his country.'
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25 million of russian people suddenly turned out to be outside the borders of the russian federation. they used to live in one state; the soviet union has traditionally been called russia, the soviet russia, and it was the great russia. then the soviet union suddenly fell apart, in fact, overnight, and it turned out that in the former soviet union republics there were 25 million russians. they used to live in one country and suddenly found themselves abroad. can you imagine how many problems came out?
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Strong countries and strong presidents talk to their adversaries. that's what kennedy did with khrushchev. that's what reagan did with gorbachev. that's what nixon did with mao. i mean think about it. iran, cuba, venezuela - these countries are tiny compared to the soviet union. they don't pose a serious threat to us the way the soviet union posed a threat to us. and yet we were willing to talk to the soviet union at the time when they were saying we're going to wipe you off the planet.
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National defense a strong usa defense brought down the soviet union. it was ronald reagan - first in a speech at notre dame university in may 1981, then his 'evil empire' speech of march 1983 - who most eloquently declared communism's imminent demise. reagan was right. and even soviet officials attribute ronald reagan's rhetoric and foreign policy to bringing down that 'evil empire.' by christmas day, 1990, the soviet union ceased to exist. liberals wished it were other things.
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General secretary gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the soviet union and eastern europe, if you seek liberalization: come here to this gate! mr. gorbachev, open this gate! mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall!
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Gorbachev's administration was amazingly politically naïve, inexperienced and irresponsible towards the country. it was not governance but a thoughtless renunciation of power. the admiration of the west in return only strengthened his conviction that his approach was right. but let us be clear that it was mikhail gorbachev, and not boris yeltsin, as is now widely being claimed, who first gave freedom of speech and movement to the citizens of russia.
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Putin doesn't conduct elections in the western sense of elections. this is more accurately probably described as a plebiscite, where people are supposed to express their support for him. the russian system is not unique in this respect, but it is rather interesting. here, in the west, the impression that people have is that putin runs the whole country. this is not so, at all. to a certain extent, you could say that he runs the kremlin, and this means that it's, in some situations, hard to tell whether it's him running the kremlin, or the people around him running him.
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