The last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail
Gorbachev, is dead.
Russian news agencies reported on Tuesday that
he died in Moscow at the age of 91 years.
“Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev died this evening
after a serious and long illness,” the Central
Clinical Hospital in Moscow said, quoted by the
Interfax, TASS and RIA Novosti news agencies.
Gorbachev, who was in power between 1985 and
1991 and helped bring US-Soviet relations out of
a deep freeze, was the last surviving Cold War
leader.
He spent much of the last two decades on the
political periphery, intermittently calling for the
Kremlin and the White House to mend ties as
tensions soared to Cold War levels since Russia
annexed Crimea in 2014 and launched an
offensive in Ukraine earlier this year.
Gorbachev spent the twilight years of his life in
and out of hospital with increasingly fragile
health and observed self-quarantine during the
pandemic as a precaution against the
coronavirus.
Gorbachev was remembered fondly in the West,
where he was referred to affectionately by the
nickname Gorby and best known for defusing
US-Soviet nuclear tensions in the 1980s as well
as bringing Eastern Europe out from behind the
Iron Curtain.
He won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 for
negotiating a historic nuclear arms pact with US
leader Ronald Reagan and his decision to
withhold the Soviet army when the Berlin Wall
fell a year earlier was seen as key to preserving
Cold War peace.
He was also championed in the West for
spearheading reforms to achieve transparency
and greater public discussion that hastened the
breakup of the Soviet empire.


Source: https://punchng.com/breaking-ex-soviet-union-leader-mikhail-gorbachev-is-dead/
Lalasticlala Mynd44

Sad, he was truly a great man.

He ended the cold war without bloodshed

RIP

Please, edit the subject of your thread. It is not good at all.

The architect of the collapse of the USSR,paving way for the independence of many states like Ukrain,reducing the powers of the soviets,

Are peacemaker truly blessed??
Rip Gorbachev, a hero in the West but a villain in his country...
You did what was right to you but wrong to your people..