Former Soviet President Gorbachev dies

RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS - In Brief 31 Aug 2022 by Alex Teddy
On August Mikhail Gorbachev died aged 91. Gorbachev ruled the USSR 1985-91. He is widely disliked for allowing the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The economic reforms that he introduced led to chaos and mass unemployment in the 1990s.  Gorbachev represents everything that Putin despises. Gorbachev will not be given a state funeral.

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