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Robert C. Byrd: “Perhaps we can have hope that perestroika and glasnost will go beyond the intentions of Mr. Gorbachev and that there can…”

On the recordMay 27, 1988
Perhaps we can have hope that perestroika and glasnost will go beyond the intentions of Mr. Gorbachev and that there can be a renaissance and a new birth of religion someday in the Soviet Union.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
govinfo.gov
May 27, 1988

Editor's note · Context

Speaking on religion in the Soviet Union during a United States-Soviet summit in Moscow.

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