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I Certainly Wouldn't Say That We Loved The Arms Race. Trillions Of Dollars Were Used To Stoke It. For Our Economy, Which Was Smaller In Size Than The American Economy, It Was A Burden. But One Cannot Agree With The Statement That The Arms Race Played The Key Role In The Collapse Of The Soviet Union.

Many People Who Live In Big Countries Like Ours Thought That We Had Resources That Would Work For Us For Many, Many Years, But That Was A Mistake. Our Natural Wealth Corrupted Us. In This Country, You Were Among The First To Raise Environmental Issues. In Russia, Despite All Of Its Problems Today, People Are Concerned About The Environment, And It's Become A Central Issue On The Agenda.

Surely, God On High Has Not Refused To Give Us Enough Wisdom To Find Ways To Bring Us An Improvement In Relations Between The Two Great Nations On Earth.

A Society Should Never Become Like A Pond With Stagnant Water, Without Movement. That's The Most Important Thing.

We Used To Have Just One Criterion And That Was Profit, And Then Another Criterion Was Added - Social Welfare. Now We Have To Add The Third Important Criterion, And That Is Nature And The Environment.