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The Telegraph
The Telegraph
National
Verity Bowman

Mikhail Gorbachev in pictures: Life and political legacy of the last leader of the Soviet Union

August 31, 2022

Mikhail Gorbachev in pictures: Life and political legacy of the last leader of the Soviet Union

Gorbachev, pictured top right

Gorbachev, pictured top right, was born in 1931 in Privolnoye, Stavropol Krai, to a poor peasant family of Russian and Ukrainian heritage 

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