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Noun: Mikhail Gorbachev
  1. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev who introduced glasnost and perestroika reforms and helped end the Cold War (born in 1931, died in 2022)
    "Mikhail Gorbachev's policies transformed the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe";
    - Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

Type of: national leader, statesperson

Encyclopedia: Mikhail Gorbachev