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We study how five leaders tempered values under pressure across the 1980s and draw out steps to test our own values today. Openness, nonviolence, stewardship, solidarity, and truth are measured not by slogans but by systems that last.

• Gorbachev’s glasnost and perestroika loosen control and end the Cold War while unleashing domestic turmoil
• Tutu’s nonviolence and Truth and Reconciliation create healing frameworks yet leave inequality unresolved
• Maathai’s Green Belt Movement links women’s empowerment with environmental restoration and civic power
• Wałęsa’s solidarity unseats dictatorship but struggles to govern amid economic shock and polarization
• Havel’s living in truth topples lies and inspires activists while confronting corruption in market transition
• Practical reflection prompts to choose one value and take a small aligned action today

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