Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born in1931 and is a Russian former Soviet politician. He was the last leader of the Soviet Union, from 1985 to 1991. He was the country's head of state from 1988 until 1991.<span>
</span>He is most remembered for his policies of glasnost<span> ("openness") and </span>perestroika<span> ("restructuring") that are indicated by many historians as the major contributed to the end of the </span>Cold War<span>.</span>
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