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Pioneer of German unity: Mikhail Gorbachev is dead

2022-08-31T04:29:18.865Z


Pioneer of German unity: Mikhail Gorbachev is dead Created: 08/31/2022Updated: 08/31/2022 06:21 By: Richard Strobl Mikhail Gorbachev has died at the age of 91. (Archive from 2003) © IMAGO/Malte Ossowski/SVEN SIMON Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has died at the age of 91. Moscow - Mikhail Gorbachev has died in Russia at the age of 91. This is reported by the Russian news agency Tass


Pioneer of German unity: Mikhail Gorbachev is dead

Created: 08/31/2022Updated: 08/31/2022 06:21

By: Richard Strobl

Mikhail Gorbachev has died at the age of 91.

(Archive from 2003) © IMAGO/Malte Ossowski/SVEN SIMON

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has died at the age of 91.

Moscow - Mikhail Gorbachev has died in Russia at the age of 91.

This is reported by the Russian news agency Tass.

"Tonight Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev died after a long and serious illness," said the Central Clinical Hospital (ZKB) in the Russian capital.

There had previously been rumors of kidney disease.

This was never officially confirmed.

Gorbachev was General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 and President of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991.

The politician was valued worldwide and is still considered one of the pioneers of German unity and the end of the Cold War.

Mikhail Gorbachev is dead - pioneer of the turnaround

In the 1980s, under Gorbachev's leadership, the Soviet Union signed groundbreaking nuclear disarmament and arms control treaties with the United States.

In his home country, Gorbachev, as General Secretary of the Communist Party, initiated an unprecedented reform process with his policy of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring).

This brought unprecedented freedom to people in the totalitarian system.

In 1990 Gorbachev received the Nobel Peace Prize for his courageous reforms.

The political process led to massive upheavals in all republics of the Soviet state and ultimately to the collapse of the communist empire.

A large part of the Russian population always saw the former party and head of state as the gravedigger of the Soviet Union - and as a politician without an instinct for power.

Gorbachev resigned as President of the Soviet Union in 1991, before the state dissolved itself shortly afterwards.

The new strongman in Moscow at the time was Russian President Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007).

Gorbachev active in Russia - and also criticized Putin

Up until his death, Gorbachev had rendered outstanding services to his own political foundation in Moscow.

The organization advocates democratic values ​​and a rapprochement between Russia and the West.

Gorbachev wrote numerous books - most recently also about his disappointment with the Germans and the West.

Specifically, he complained that new enemy images were being drawn against Russia.

For health reasons, he did not travel to the celebrations marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in autumn 2019.

He has had to be hospitalized repeatedly over the past few years.

The politician was a co-owner of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta", which is critical of the Kremlin and repeatedly uncovers abuses in Russia.

In recent years, Gorbachev has repeatedly asked Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin not to further restrict the freedom of the media and elections.

The statesman is buried in Moscow at the New Maiden Cemetery for celebrities - next to his wife Raisa.

(rjs/dpa)

Source: merkur

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