Gorbachev, who once said the collapse of the Iron Curtain would have been impossible without the pope, said the pontiff condemned communism during the two's first meeting in 1989, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. We had a really interesting, albeit perhaps too emotional conversation, ... He told me he ... was very, very critical of communism.
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The Berlin Wall was a mark of contradictions in the world, and it became a mark of radical changes in the world which touched the majority of humankind, ... But the way towards abolishing it was long and painful.Mikhail Gorbachev
While adhering to his convictions, with which one could agree or disagree, he was not dogmatic he was looking for negotiations and cooperation. And this was the most important thing to me he had the trust of the American people.
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Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.
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If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.
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Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
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