Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev Passes Away: Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the erstwhile Soviet Union, passed away at the age of 91. Gorbachev played a crucial role in ending the Cold War but couldn’t avoid the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1991.
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