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Gorbachev wants perestroika for America
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| Contributor | Zeus the Moose |
| Last Edited | Zeus the Moose Jan 11, 2012 02:40pm |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Oct 24, 2011 06:00pm |
| Description | Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev has recognized the Occupy Wall Street movement, and he says the uprising sweeping America is like something he’s seen before himself.
Speaking at Lafayette College last week, Gorbachev likened the current unrest in the US to what he witnessed before the dissolution of the USSR. The solution, says Gorbachev, is a new world order.
“We are reaping the consequences of a strategy that is not conducive to cooperation and partnership, to living in a new global situation,” the former leader said from a venue at the Easton, Pennsylvania university. “People are asking ‘why do our leaders want to decide everything at the expense of the people?’” he asked. |
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