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"We can't let it happen. We've already seen what happens on city squares," Gorbachev said, referring to the Arab Spring rallies in northern Africa and the Mideast. Gorbachev served as the Soviet Union's president from 1985 until 1991, when the communist government collapsed. He remains admired abroad, but he is regarded as insignificant at home and his comments are not likely to affect public opinion or threaten Putin's grip on power.
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