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Mikhail Gorbachev - It is time to consign to oblivion...
It is time to consign to oblivion the cold war postulates when Europe was viewed as an arena of confrontation divided into "spheres of influence" and someone else's "forward-based defences", as an object of military confrontation - namely a theatre of war. (Mikhail Gorbachev)

It is time to consign to oblivion the cold war postulates when Europe was viewed as an arena of confrontation divided into "spheres of influence" and someone else's "forward-based defences", as an object of military confrontation - namely a theatre of war.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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