It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history, as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.
Address to British Parliament, delivered 8 June 1982, Royal Gallery at the Palace of Westminster, London
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