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 terror against those who did not agree. No one could have imagined back then that, six decades later, freedom would be enjoyed not only by private farmers, but by several dozen peoples and republics - all because of a boy from a Stavropol village in the North Caucasus.
Mikhail Gorbachev turns 90: The man that changed the world
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Margaret Thatcher was played by Gillian Anderson in season four
There are a number of real-life occurrences and events that might reach the script pages for series five including the downfall of Thatcher, Prince Charles and Diana s divorce and the Princess of Wales subsequent Panorama interview, and the divorce between Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson.
Peter Morgan, the brains behind
The Crown, previously stated that the show had a twenty year limit, meaning the show wouldn t dramatise any events that occurred in the past two decades.
With this in mind, it s possible that series five would perhaps cover the first half of the 1990s, while series six might cover the latter half of the decade, including the death of the Princess of Wales. But, as always, we ll have to wait and see to find out more!