Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 - 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician.
==Biography==
Gorbachev was born in Privolnoye in the Russian SFSR, to a poor peasant family of Russian and Ukrainian heritage. Growing up under the rule of Joseph Stalin in his youth, he operated combine harvesters on a Kolkhoz collective farm before joining the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He rose through it's ranks, until eventually becoming the First Secretary of the Stavropol kraikom, during his term as which he visited Belgium, Netherlands, Italy and France. These tours shook him, and made him reconsider the Soviet-taught inferiority of democracy.
After Konstantin Chernenko died in 1985, Aleksander Rukov took power as the Soviet leader. Gorbachev was not pleased with Aleksander's aggressive policies, upholding of the Brezhnev Doctrine, and his desire for all communist states to wage a war against NATO. Gorbachev would offer Aleksander to open up to the West, offering to visit West Germany and Vatican City in his name, something Aleksander declined, not wanting his politician to dabble with Western degeneracy. Gorbachev did not complain, as his agenda was to keep Aleksander in good relations with himself, so that he potentially will be chosen as the next head of state, giving him the chance to implement the economic and societal reforms he desired to give the Soviet Union.
In 1990, the Third World War erupted, making Gorbachev's plans impossible to implement - the Soviet Union would either be dismantled, or destroyed, after the war is over, and if it was to win the war, something he thought to be rather unlikely, it would not possible for him to be chosen as Aleksander's successor, as Aleksander's aggressive, anti-revolutionary policies would prove to be successful enough to take over the world - something his reformist ideas could not compete against. Thus, for the entirety of the war, mostly to protect the lives of his and his dear family, he stayed quiet, maintaining a low profile and just living in his dachas; especially as the war was starting to become desperate.
When the Soviet Union was dissolved into independent states, Gorbachev became a politician in the newly-reformed Russian Empire, before passing away in 2022.
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