{"id":129946,"date":"2022-08-31T08:12:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T12:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=129946"},"modified":"2022-08-30T19:43:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T23:43:37","slug":"mikhail-gorbachev-passes-away-at-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=129946","title":{"rendered":"Mikhail Gorbachev passes away at 91"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michael Gorbachev was the final leader of the Soviet Union. He initiated changes in the Soviet Union that contributed to the events leading to its disintegration. He experienced an attempted coup in the summer of 1991, then he resigned on December 25, 1991. The Soviet Union officially ended the following day.<\/p>\n

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Though in power less than seven years, Gorbachev unleashed a breathtaking series of changes. But they quickly overtook him and resulted in the collapse of the authoritarian Soviet state, the freeing of Eastern European nations from Russian domination and the end of decades of East-West nuclear confrontation.<\/p>\n

His decline was humiliating. His power hopelessly sapped by an attempted coup against him in August 1991, he spent his last months in office watching republic after republic declare independence until he resigned on Dec. 25, 1991. The Soviet Union wrote itself into oblivion a day later.<\/p>\n

A quarter-century after the collapse, Gorbachev told the Associated Press that he had not considered using widespread force to try to keep the USSR together because he feared chaos in a nuclear country.<\/p>\n

“The country was loaded to the brim with weapons. And it would have immediately pushed the country into a civil war,” he said.<\/p>\n

Gorbachev won the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending the Cold War and spent his later years collecting accolades and awards from all corners of the world. Yet he was widely despised at home.<\/p>\n

Russians blamed him for the 1991 implosion of the Soviet Union \u2014 a once-fearsome superpower whose territory fractured into 15 separate nations. His former allies deserted him and made him a scapegoat for the country’s troubles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News has additional details<\/a>. Thanks to ninja for providing the lead for this story.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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