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Mikhail Gorbachev
Last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1931–2022) whose policies of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) inadvertently unleashed the forces that dissolved the USSR in 1991. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 for his role in ending the Cold War.
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