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Director Ridley Scott is making a film about the 1986 summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, between President Ronald Reagan and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The yet-unnamed film could be wrapped by the end of the year and released in early 2009.
"These are fascinating historical characters, larger-than-life figures, but I want to show who they were and why they did what they did," Scott told the Hollywood Reporter. "Their actions helped shape history, paving the way for the end of the Cold War."
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said Wednesday that he viewed a U.S. plan to deploy a missile defense shield in Central Europe as targeting Russia, not Iran.
He also criticized the high level of military spending in the US, saying "Does America intend to fight the rest of the world, does America need to build a new empire?"
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At a party in the UK recently, Mikhail Gorbachev spoke about his early years.
"I came from a peasant family so I know the value of working hard. Through the war, it was occupied by the Nazis and a few members of the Gorbachev family did not return," he said. "
I remember the horrors of oppression under Stalin. After I graduated High School, I was admitted to Moscow University. "I remember travelling there by train and seeing all of the cities destroyed.
Perhaps at that time something happened to me - caused a repugnance to war and I never forgot where I came from."
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Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union's last leader, felt moved to speak out on the upcoming Russian election. "Something wrong is going on with our elections," he told theInterfax agency. But it's not only elections: In fact, the system that Mr. Gorbachev took apart is being meticulously reconstructed.
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