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The last president of the USSR, architect of perestroika and great reformer of communist Russia, Mikhail Gorbachev, died this Tuesday, August 30, in Moscow at the age of 91. Gorbachev ended half a century of antagonism between East and West known as the Cold War.
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the USSR, father of perestroika and the great reformer of communist Russia, died this Tuesday, August 30, at the age of 91 in Moscow. “This afternoon after a long and serious illness, Mikhail Gorbachev passed away,” sources from the Central Clinical Hospital told the RIA Nóvosti agency.
The Russian media even stated that he spent months hospitalized for a series of conditions. In 2019, the last Soviet leader, who left political life in 1991, was hospitalized for pneumonia.
According to the TASS agency, the former president will be buried in the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow, where the remains of prominent figures in the history of this country lie and the tomb of Gorbachev’s wife, Raísa, is also located.
Gorbachev was a key actor in the history of the 20th century. He was General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and later the last leader of the Soviet Union.
This politician launched an ambitious program of economic reforms known as perestroika and political opening, glasnost, a reform applied in the USSR, whose objective was to generate free and open discussions among Russian citizens on political and social issues.
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