Last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev dies at 91: A surprising part of his historic story
The Daily Article
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🗓️ 31 August 2022
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Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, passed away yesterday at the age of ninety-one. When he came to power in 1985, he introduced key political and economic reforms to the USSR that helped end the Cold War without the firing of a single shot. For his courageous leadership, he was awarded the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize. However, many Russians today do not view him in a positive light. In The Daily Article for August 31, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison considers the tension of Russian–American relations today and why we need a Power beyond ourselves.
Author: Dr. Jim Denison
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:59.7 | Today, August the 31st, 2022, and this is the Daily Article podcast. |
| 1:04.7 | Today's article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum. |
| 1:05.8 | Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, passed away yesterday at the age of 91. When he came to power in 1985, he entered the last leader of the Soviet Union passed away yesterday at the age of 91. |
| 1:11.6 | When he came to power in 1985, he introduced key political and economic reforms to the USSR |
| 1:18.6 | that helped end the Cold War without the firing of a single shot. |
| 1:22.6 | For his courageous leadership, he was awarded the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize. |
| 1:29.0 | He is one of the few people in history who can be said to have changed history. |
| 1:34.5 | Here's a part of his story that surprised me. |
| 1:37.2 | While Garbachev is being hailed as a hero today by the West, he's widely seen as a villain in Russia. |
| 1:43.2 | In a 2017 poll, only 8% of Russian citizens |
| 1:47.8 | saw him in a positive light. More than 60% said they had a distaste or hatred for him. |
| 1:54.8 | This is because many Russians agree with President Vladimir Putin's assertion that the collapse |
| 2:00.2 | of the Soviet Empire was |
| 2:02.1 | the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. In the same 2017 poll that held Gorbachev in such |
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