If Not Me, Who? And If Not

We Could Still Have Continued The Arms Race, But The Arms Race Was Pointless, And It Was Another Reason We Decided To Start Perestroika. It Was Senseless To Continue To Accumulate Weapons. We Had Enough Weapons To Destroy Life On Earth 1,000 Times, And Therefore It Was Very Clear To Us That The Arms Race Could Spiral Out Of Control. A Conflict Could Have Started, As Both The Americans And The Soviets Realized, Not Out Of A Wrong Political Decision But Because Of A Failure In The Command-and-control Systems.

The Soviet People Want Full-blooded And Unconditional Democracy.

We Need A New System Of Values, A System Of The Organic Unity Between Humankind And Nature And The Ethic Of Global Responsibility.

If The Russian Word "perestroika" Has Easily Entered The International Lexicon, This Is Due To More Than Just Interest In What Is Going On In The Soviet Union. Now The Whole World Needs Restructuring, I.e. Progressive Development, A Fundamental Change.

Water, Like Religion And Ideology, Has The Power To Move Millions Of People. Since The Very Birth Of Human Civilization, People Have Moved To Settle Close To It. People Move When There Is Too Little Of It. People Move When There Is Too Much Of It. People Journey Down It. People Write, Sing And Dance About It. People Fight Over It. And All People, Everywhere And Every Day, Need It.