Georgian politician and diplomat (1928–2014)
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He was the face of Soviet reform on the world stage under Gorbachev, then came home to rule an independent Georgia through civil war, territorial losses, and finally his own overthrow in the Rose Revolution.
Eduard Shevardnadze began in the late 1940s as a Komsomol organizer, rose through the Georgian Soviet hierarchy, fell into obscurity in 1961 after insulting a senior official, then clawed back by prosecuting corruption—eventually charging Georgia's own First Secretary. He led Soviet Georgia from 1972 to 1985, launching economic reforms that produced rare growth during the stagnation years. Gorbachev made him Foreign Minister in 1985, a post he held until the Soviet collapse, second only to Gorbachev himself in shaping the era's diplomacy. When Georgia won independence, a military council asked…
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Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.
It is time to realize that neither socialism, nor friendship, nor good-neighborliness, nor respect can be produced by bayonets, tanks or blood.
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