Serious speeches and heartfelt tributes
The man who was the President of Poland when President Gorbachev liberated Poland is now seventy-nine years old. His name is Wojciech Jaruzelski. He gave a very moving speech. He said, “People do not know what Gorbachev has done for the world. Only after two hundred years perhaps they will realise what he has done for this world. Today Poland exists because of one individual: Gorbachev.” I was so deeply moved by his words.Then the former German Foreign Minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, said that when President Gorbachev turns eighty years old, he will come again to Moscow for President Gorbachev's birthday party. Everybody heartily laughed.
Sri Chinmoy, Sri Chinmoy in Russia, Agni Press, 2001