Mikhail Gorbachev Former President Of The Soviet Union Who Brought Down The Iron Curtain Dies

“Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev died this afternoon after a serious and prolonged illness,” the Central Clinical Hospital said, according to RIA Novosti on Tuesday. The man credited with introducing key political and economic reforms to the USSR and helping to end the Cold War had been in poor health for some time. With his outgoing, charismatic nature, Gorbachev broke the mold for Soviet leaders who until then had mostly been aloof, frosty figures. Almost from the beginning of his leadership, he tried for important reforms to make the system work more efficiently and more democratically. Hence the two key phrases of the Gorbachev era: “glasnost” (openness) and “perestroika” (restructuring). “I started these reforms and my stars were freedom and democracy, without bloodshed. So the people would cease to be a flock led by a shepherd. They would become citizens,” he later said.
Correction: This story has been updated to reflect that Gorbachev died at 91. CNN’s Tim Lister contributed reporting.

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“Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev died this afternoon after a serious and prolonged illness,” the Central Clinical Hospital said, according to RIA Novosti on Tuesday. The man credited with introducing key political and economic reforms to the USSR and helping to end the Cold War had been in poor health for some time. With his outgoing, charismatic nature, Gorbachev broke the mold for Soviet leaders who until then had mostly been aloof, frosty figures. Almost from the beginning of his leadership, he tried for important reforms to make the system work more efficiently and more democratically. Hence the two key phrases of the Gorbachev era: “glasnost” (openness) and “perestroika” (restructuring). “I started these reforms and my stars were freedom and democracy, without bloodshed. So the people would cease to be a flock led by a shepherd. They would become citizens,” he later said.
Correction: This story has been updated to reflect that Gorbachev died at 91. CNN’s Tim Lister contributed reporting.

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“Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev died this afternoon after a serious and prolonged illness,” the Central Clinical Hospital said, according to RIA Novosti on Tuesday. The man credited with introducing key political and economic reforms to the USSR and helping to end the Cold War had been in poor health for some time. With his outgoing, charismatic nature, Gorbachev broke the mold for Soviet leaders who until then had mostly been aloof, frosty figures. Almost from the beginning of his leadership, he tried for important reforms to make the system work more efficiently and more democratically. Hence the two key phrases of the Gorbachev era: “glasnost” (openness) and “perestroika” (restructuring). “I started these reforms and my stars were freedom and democracy, without bloodshed. So the people would cease to be a flock led by a shepherd. They would become citizens,” he later said.
Correction: This story has been updated to reflect that Gorbachev died at 91. CNN’s Tim Lister contributed reporting.

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“Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev died this afternoon after a serious and prolonged illness,” the Central Clinical Hospital said, according to RIA Novosti on Tuesday. The man credited with introducing key political and economic reforms to the USSR and helping to end the Cold War had been in poor health for some time. With his outgoing, charismatic nature, Gorbachev broke the mold for Soviet leaders who until then had mostly been aloof, frosty figures. Almost from the beginning of his leadership, he tried for important reforms to make the system work more efficiently and more democratically. Hence the two key phrases of the Gorbachev era: “glasnost” (openness) and “perestroika” (restructuring). “I started these reforms and my stars were freedom and democracy, without bloodshed. So the people would cease to be a flock led by a shepherd. They would become citizens,” he later said.
Correction: This story has been updated to reflect that Gorbachev died at 91. CNN’s Tim Lister contributed reporting.