我認為，保住近年的民主化成果非常重要，那是通過我們整個歷史中的苦難、我們的悲慘經歷才得來。
—戈爾巴喬夫，1991 年辭職演說
“I think it is vitally important to preserve the democratic achievements of the past years. They have been paid for by the suffering of our whole history, our tragic experience.”
—Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s resignation speech, 1991
