Original sentence: All this was before a reformer, Mikhail Gorbachev, rose to power in the Soviet Union in 1985
Edited sentence: All this was before a reformer, Mikhail Gorbachev rose to power in the Soviet Union in 1985, and many in the right wing media in the United States speculated and opined that it had been Reagan's tough position which had forced the Soviet Central Committee into seeking newer and younger blood.Reagan later wrote in his autobiography An American Life that he did not see the profound changes that would occur in the Soviet Union after Gorbachev rose to power.The octigenarians had been dying with dreary regularity in any case, but it was percieved that Reagan's full-court pressure had influenced events