Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at a press conference in the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, in 1985. Staff Writer Countless words will be dedicated in the following days to Mikhail Gorbachev, the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shortly after Gorbachev became the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1985, he ramped up talk about ...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at a press conference in the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, in 1985. Credit - Francois Lochon—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images Shortly after Gorbachev became ...