The River of Time and the Imperative of Action - Mikhail Gorbachev | Green Lecture 1992

Speaking to the more than 20,000 people gathered on the campus of Westminster College and thousands more who listened to the speech live in 132 countries around the world, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev closed the curtain on the Cold War with his speech, "The River of Time and the Imperative of Action", on May 6, 1992.
Following an opening processional that included a memorable walk by Gorbachev through one of the openings of the Berlin Wall "Breakthrough" sculpture, William Young, College Chaplain, delivered the invocation, and the 39th U.S. Army Band from Fort Leonard Wood played the national anthem. President Saunders and Missouri Governor John Ashcroft offered greetings from the College and the State of Missouri. Next, Yanina Chernenko, a Westminster freshman from the Russian city of Saint Petersburg (formerly Leningrad), presented her former president for the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.
The crowd applauded as Gorbachev moved to the historic podium used by Winston Churchill in 1946. The 45-minute address was delivered in Russian and simultaneously translated into English by U.S. State Department interpreter Harris Coulter. Forty-six years, two months, and two days after Winston Churchill's monumental speech, Gorbachev had brought Westminster and the world full circle, proclaiming an end to the Cold War and the beginning of a new era holding the promise of peace.
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