Mikhail Gorbachev
Also known as: M.S. Gorbachev · M. Gorbachev · Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachyov · Gorbachev · Mikhail Gorbachyov · Gorby · Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev · Gorbi
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was a Soviet and Russian politician who was the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until the country's dissolution in 1991.
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Mikhail Gorbachev: German reunification
The recipient of a wide range of awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize, he was praised for his role in ending the Cold War, introducing new political and economic freedoms in the Soviet Union, and tolerating both the fall of Marxist–Leninist administrations in eastern and central Europe and the German reunification.
Mikhail Gorbachev: The Night the Berlin Wall Opened, 9 November 1989
After the picnic, which was based on an idea by Otto von Habsburg to test the reaction of the USSR and Mikhail Gorbachev to an opening of the border, tens of thousands of media-informed East Germans set off for Hungary.