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Mikhail Gorbachev

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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Gorbachev's glasnost and the competitive 1989 elections opened Soviet politics, and his refusal to use force in Eastern Europe let the 1989 revolutions happen. Soviet troops did kill protesters in Vilnius and Riga in January 1991 on his watch, and many Russians blame him for the economic collapse and the Union's break-up.
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