Posted on 02/25/2022 9:03:57 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Well, thank you, Rector Logunov. And I want to thank all of you very much for a very warm welcome. It's a great pleasure to be here at Moscow State University, and I want to thank you all for turning out. I know you must be very busy this week, studying and taking your final examinations. So, let me just say zhelayu yam uspekha [I wish you success]. Nancy couldn't make it today because she's visiting Leningrad, which she tells me is a very beautiful city, but she, too, says hello and wishes you all good luck.
Let me say it's also a great pleasure to once again have this opportunity to speak directly to the people of the Soviet Union. Before I left Washington, I received many heartfelt letters and telegrams asking me to carry here a simple message, perhaps, but also some of the most important business of this summit: It is a message of peace and good will and hope for a growing friendship and closeness between our two peoples.
As you know, I've come to Moscow to meet with one of your most distinguished graduates. In this, our fourth summit, General Secretary Gorbachev and I have spent many hours together, and I feel that we're getting to know each other well. Our discussions, of course, have been focused primarily on many of the important issues of the day, issues I want to touch on with you in a few moments. But first I want to take a little time to talk to you much as I would to any group of university students in the United States. I want to talk not just of the realities of today but of the possibilities of tomorrow...
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“Go to any university campus, and there you’ll find an open, sometimes heated discussion of the problems in American society and what can be done to correct them.”
Not any more. Now our universities openly ban dissenting speech.
What we had in Ronald Reagan, I fear we shall never see again.
The real tragedy is that Reagan didn’t get to manage post Cold War, the Bushes and Clintons f’d it all up.
I honestly thought Moscow St U was in Idaho.
Reagan, like Lincoln, would have been magnanimous in victory.
He would have had the vision to see that we needed the Russians as friends and not potential enemies going forward into the ‘90s and ‘00s.
Exactly. Reagan is actually even today still very popular in Russia. If you ask Russians who their favorite President was, Reagan wins, hands down, they respected him as a leader.
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