Mikhail Gorbachev
1931 (90 years ago): Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian politician, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1990 is born.
Mikhail Gorbachev at the October 1986 summit in Reykjavik, Iceland
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Mikhail Gorbachev is a Russian lawyer and politician who was general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Central Committee from 1985 to 1991 and head of state of the Soviet Union from 1988 to 1991. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 and is currently leader of the Union of Social Democrats, a party formed after the official dissolution of the Social Democratic Party of Russia in 2007.
Elected General Secretary of the Communist Party in 1985, Gorbachev announced that the Soviet economy was stagnant and that reorganization was necessary. Initially, his reforms were called uskoréniye (acceleration), but later the terms glásnost (liberalization, openness, transparency) and perestroika (reconstruction) became much more popular.
After his resignation and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev remained active in Russian politics. During the first years of the post-Soviet era, he voiced criticism of the reforms carried out by Russian President Boris Yeltsin. When Yeltsin called a referendum for April 25, 1993 in an attempt to achieve even greater powers as president, Gorbachev did not vote and instead called new presidential elections.
On April 16, 2020, in the face of the Coronavirus Pandemic, Gorbachev said that to defeat the coronavirus, military spending would have to be reduced and cut.
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