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Eduard Shevardnadze

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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.


— Eduard Shevardnadze


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As for myself, I was never against Russia.


— Eduard Shevardnadze


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But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most.


— Eduard Shevardnadze


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But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.


— Eduard Shevardnadze


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Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.


— Eduard Shevardnadze


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Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.


— Eduard Shevardnadze


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I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.


— Eduard Shevardnadze


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I believe politicians should always remain realistic.


— Eduard Shevardnadze


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I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.


— Eduard Shevardnadze


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But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.


— Eduard Shevardnadze


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Did you know about Eduard Shevardnadze?

After his personal subterfuge the entire Georgian border police was purged. He escaped an assassination attempt in Abkhazia in 1992: Russian military carried out an attack on Shevardnadze's life. He became the country's head of state following the removal of Zviad Gamsakhurdia as President.

From then on with the exception of a brief period between 1990 and 1991 only Gorbachev would outrank Shevardnadze in importance in Soviet foreign policy. Eduard Ambrosis dze Shevardnadze (Georgian: ედუარდ ამბროსის ძე შევარდნაძე [ɛduard ʃɛvardnad͡zɛ]; born 25 January 1928) is a former Soviet minister of foreign affairs and later Georgian statesman from the height to the end of the Cold War. Mikhail Gorbachev appointed Shevardnadze to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs.

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