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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev dies at 91

Mikhail Gorbachev speaks at a lectern in 1990.
Then-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev addresses a group of business executives in San Francisco on June 5, 1990.
(David Longstreath / Associated Press)
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One of the most influential politicians of the 20th century, Mikhail S. Gorbachev used his six years as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to systematically dismantle the machinery of repression.

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