Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes
Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
"Gorbachev Calls Jesus 'First Socialist'." Los Angeles Times, 16 June 1992.
There is a school of thought that since Jesus Christ preached care for the poor and have-nots that he was a socialist. Others believe that this is simply a commonality between some of the teachings of Christ and some aspects of socialism. The irony is that Chavez’s brand of socialism and polarization of society was in very large part contrary to Christ’s teachings, though there have been few governments that had ever met Christ’s standards of morality including and especially Christian, church-dominated government’s and theocracies.
Ferrer was the last public figure to be executed in Europe for heresy.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a Russian and former Soviet politician. The eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, he was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. He was also the country's head of state from 1988 until 1991, serving as the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989, chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1990, and president of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991. Ideologically, Gorbachev initially adhered to Marxism–Leninism, although he had moved towards social democracy by the early 1990s.
