Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes About Dictatorship
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The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
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What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and dictatorship. The rejection of freedom and democracy, the decisionmaking monopoly of one party, and the monopoly of one ideology all had a chilling effect on the country. That model turned out to be incapable of making structural changes. It did not open up ways for initiative and was overly centralized.
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It will be difficult, even painful, but democracy will prevail in Russia. There will be no dictatorship, although relapses into authoritarianism are possible.
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Mikhail Gorbachev
- Born: March 2, 1931
- Occupation: Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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