Mikhail Gorbachev – Acceptance Speech

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Nobel Lecture 1.

The speech was read by Andrej Kovaljov.

From Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1990, Editor Tore Frängsmyr, [Nobel Foundation], Stockholm, 1991
Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 1990

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