Mikhail Gorbchev News Today

Mikhail Gorbachev turns 90: The man that changed the world (PHOTOS) Getty Images The first and last President of the USSR turns 90 on March 2. Take a look at snapshots of the Nobel Peace Prize laureat’s life in the revealing gallery we’ve put together below. Mikhail Gorbachev was born in 1931, the year Joseph Stalin tried to eliminate the peasant class with his “iron hand”: He put a ban on private farms, instead creating collective ones, while implementing policies of ...