In 1978, Gorbachev was appointed to the Central Committee's Secretariat for Agriculture, replacing his old friend Kulakov, who had died of a heart attack. The eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, he was the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991.
The answer would be A. The Japanese were determined to fight to the end, even if defeat was inevitable. Japan ended up fighting till the end and ignored the warnings.
