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Episode 315 GEORGE H. W. BUSH The Fall of the Soviet Union (part 1) A look at Mikhail Gorbachev Part A
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As we begin our four part look back at the fall of the Soviet Union, we begin by looking back at the man who presided over it, Mikhail Gorbachev.
He was reformer, a charismatic leader, and a committed Communist. It is that latter part of the description that is the key to understanding his own downfall. He stayed married to the Communist philosophy to long and due to it was maneuvered out of his job, by another leader, Boris Yeltsin, whose rise was only made possible by the reforms that Gorbachev himself had unleashed.
In this episode we examine both the life, rise and career…
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