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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died aged 91. Gorbachev is known for ending the Cold War without bloodshed but also for failing to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev's foreign policy, which he called 'new thinking', has been identified as one of the things that contributed to the end of the Cold War.

1. He was born into a Russian-Ukrainian peasant familyMikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born on 3 March 1931 in the village of Privolnoye, Stavropol Krai. Gorbachev’s Ukrainian mother, Maria Panteleyevna was a devout Orthodox Christian and had her baby, initially named Viktor, secretly christened ‘Mikhail’. His parents had one other son after World War Two, Aleksandr.During the early 1930s, Stalin initiated an intense policy of systematic socialisation.

On several occasions, he showed he was unafraid of questioning Soviet authority. He did not agree with the Soviet legal rule that confessions meant guilt, arguing that confessions could be forced.He also became close friends with Zdeněk Mlynář, a Czechoslovak student who shared his Marxist-Leninist beliefs and concerns about Stalinism. Mlynář later became a leading ideologist of the 1968 Prague Spring.

 

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