Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as … - Mikhail Gorbachev

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DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.

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