The Last Leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, Died

In a statement made by the Central Clinical Hospital of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, it was stated that 91-year-old Gorbachev died in the evening after a serious and long illness.

From 1985 to 1991, Gorbachev was general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), the highest governing body of the USSR.

With the reform made in 1990, the presidential system was introduced. Gorbachev was elected President of the USSR in a vote in the Supreme Soviet. Gorbachev was president of the USSR from 1990 to 1991.

Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (born March 2, 1931 – died August 30, 2022), Russian politician and last leader of the Soviet Union (1985-1991). Ideologically, Gorbachev initially adhered to Marxism-Leninism, but in the early 1990s he turned to social democracy.

Gorbachev's reform efforts called perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness) ended the Cold War; however, these reforms caused the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to lose its political supremacy in the country and subsequently the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990. He is on the list of the first 100 people with the most works written about him.

Gorbachev has a prominent birthmark on the top of his head. By 1955 his hair was thinning, and by the late 1960s he was bald. He struggled against obesity throughout the 1960s. Doder and Branson described him as "stocky but not fat". He speaks with a Southern Russian accent and is known to sing both folk and pop songs.

All her life she tried to dress fashionably. He drank small amounts of alcohol, but disliked strong drinks. He didn't smoke. He was protective of his private life and avoided inviting people into his home. Gorbachev valued his wife very much, and she valued her husband. He sent his only child, his daughter, to a local public school in Stavropol instead of a school reserved for the children of politicians. Unlike many of his contemporaries under Soviet rule, he was not a misogynist and was known for treating women with respect.

Gorbachev was baptized as Russian Orthodox, and growing up, his grandparents professed Christianity. In 2008, after visiting the tomb of Francis of Assisi, there was some speculation in the press that he was a Christian, and he declared that he was an atheist. Doder and Branson thought that Gorbachev was "somewhat self-conscious of his intellectuality," noting that, unlike most Russian intelligentsia, he was not closely connected to "the world of science, culture, art, or education." While living in Stavropol, he collected hundreds of books with his wife. His favorite authors included Arthur Miller, Dostoyevsky and Chingiz Aitmatov, and he also enjoyed reading detective stories. He enjoyed going for walks, loved nature, and was also a football fan. Instead of the large, alcoholic parties common among Soviet officials, he preferred small gatherings where those gathered to discuss topics such as art and philosophy.