[Old News] Former Soviet Union Supreme Leader Mikhail Gorbachev dies
Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Soviet Union and later the sole president, played an instrumental role in ending the Cold War, but was also criticized for accelerating the dissolution of the Soviet Union and weakening Russia's global influence. He died in a Moscow hospital where he was admitted. was 91 years old.
Mikhail Gorbachev has died at age 91 - Russia - TASS
Former Soviet last leader Mr. Gorbachev dies | NHK | Russia
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20220831/k10013795831000.html
Gorbachev was born on March 2, 1931 to a poor farming family in the Stavropol region of southern Russia. In 1955 he graduated from the Faculty of Law of Moscow State University with a doctorate. In 1967 he graduated from the Stavropol Agricultural University.
He joined the Communist Party in 1952, and in 1970 became the first secretary of the Stavropol Regional Committee, directing the construction of the Stavropol Grand Canal. He became a member of the Central Committee in 1971, the secretary of the Central Committee in 1978, and a member of the Party's Politburo in 1979.
In 1985, he became General Secretary of the Central Committee following the death of his predecessor, Konstantin Chernenko. became the de facto leader of the Soviet Union.
Mr. Gorbachev promoted the political and economic reform policy 'perestroika' and the information disclosure policy 'glasnost' triggered by the Chernobyl nuclear accident that occurred in 1986. In addition, he established the People's Deputies and promoted democratization. He won elections in 1990 and became the first president of the Soviet Union.
In diplomacy, he withdrew from the war in Afghanistan, and at a summit meeting with President Ronald Reagan of the United States, realized restrictions on nuclear weapons and the end of the Cold War. Has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
However, domestically, it caused a backlash from hardliners, and a coup d'etat occurred in August 1991. Although this coup failed, the influence of the Gorbachev regime was lost, and the three Baltic states became independent. Furthermore, the Soviet Union collapsed as President Boris Yeltsin of the Russian Republic took a move to leave the Soviet Union.
After that, he established the Gorbachev Foundation and worked on environmental problems. In response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, he expressed the opinion that it is necessary to stop fighting and immediately start peace negotiations. However, it has been criticized by Ukrainian media and others for supporting Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014.
In the former Soviet Union countries such as Russia, Mr. Gorbachev is said to have been ``weakened the country'' and ``caused the economic collapse'' and is not evaluated very much, but in the western countries he is evaluated as a key player in the end of the Cold War. In 2007, a game called 'Gorby's Pipeline Operation' named after Mr. Gorbachev's nickname, Gorby, was released. There is also a figure of Mr. Gorbachev on the title screen.
Gorby no Pipeline Daisakusen (1991) - MobyGames
https://www.mobygames.com/game/gorby-no-pipeline-daisakusen
In addition, in recent distribution versions, Mr. Gorbachev's appearance and the crown 'Gorby' are omitted.
Golby of 'Pipeline Daisakusen' does not appear in the main part, but Golby is the main character straight in Game Gear's action puzzle game ' Ganbare Golby '.
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