Mikhail Gorbachev Detail
About Mikhail Gorbachev Detail
See Gorbachev main entry. He was the only Soviet leader born after the Revolution. Gorbachevs glasnost and perestroika were meant to save communism but destroyed it. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990. Gorbachev appeared in a Pizza Hut commercial in 1997 to raise money for his foundation. He was deeply unpopular in Russia, blamed for the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the West, he was celebrated as the man who ended the Cold War. Gorbachev died in August 2022, the same week that Putin launched a new wave of the Ukraine war.
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