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Mikhail Gorbachev dead at 91

Final leader of the Soviet Union allowed 'glasnost' free speech, helped end the Cold War and bring down the Iron Curtain - but then saw his own superpower crumble.

Mikhail Gorbachev - the last leader of the USSR and the man despised by Vladimir Putin and Russian nationalists for ending the Cold War and preventing the collapse of the Soviet Union - has died at the age of 91, Russian news agencies cited hospital officials as saying.

The Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow said that Gorbachev died 'after a serious and long illness', according to the Interfax, TASS and RIA Novosti news agencies.

The former Soviet leader had been suffering from long term kidney problems and was on dialysis, according to reports.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11162107/USSRs-final-leader-Mikhail-Gorbachev-dies-aged-91.html