I Will Never Give Up Politics. I've

The Forests Of Russia And Brazil Are The Lungs Of The Earth.

Sometimes, The Decisions Have To Be Taken In Minutes, Even Seconds, And There Would Be No Time To Make The Right Decision. We Understood That This Could Have Ended In Catastrophe.

Not Only America But All Countries Should Think Together About How The Enormous Might Of The Sole Remaining Superpower Should Be Used. We Need A Leadership That Is Based On Partnership, A Leadership That Unites Nations And Makes It Possible To Solve The Problems Of The Globe Together. Otherwise, We Will Have Another Gold Rush For A Superpower That Wants To Gain Even Greater Advantages, That Wants To Gain An Absolutely New Position For Itself. That Would Lead To A Perverse Utopia.

We Could Still Have Continued The Arms Race, But The Arms Race Was Pointless, And It Was Another Reason We Decided To Start Perestroika. It Was Senseless To Continue To Accumulate Weapons. We Had Enough Weapons To Destroy Life On Earth 1,000 Times, And Therefore It Was Very Clear To Us That The Arms Race Could Spiral Out Of Control. A Conflict Could Have Started, As Both The Americans And The Soviets Realized, Not Out Of A Wrong Political Decision But Because Of A Failure In The Command-and-control Systems.

According To Lenin, Socialism And Democracy Are Indivisible.... The Essence Of Perestroika Lies In The Fact That It Unites Socialism With Democracy And Revives The Leninist Concept Of Socialist Construction Both In Theory And In Practice. We Want More Socialism And, Therefore, More Democracy.