Mikhail Gorbachev, who steered Soviet breakup, dead at 91
The Central Clinical Hospital where the former leader was at said in a statement that Gorbachev died Tuesday after a long illness.
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The Central Clinical Hospital where the former leader was at said in a statement that Gorbachev died Tuesday after a long illness.
MOSCOW -- Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War, died Tuesday. The last Soviet leader was 91.
Mikhail Gorbachev helped end the Cold War and oversaw the dissolution of the totalitarian Soviet Union. But he was widely reviled in Russia.
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Mikhail Gorbachev, the former leader of the Soviet Union, died on August 30, 2022 at the age of 91.