BREAKING Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died at 91, Russian media reports
News organizations quoted a statement from the Central Clinical Hospital as saying he died after a long illness. No other details were given.
A quarter-century after the collapse, Gorbachev told The Associated Press that he had not considered using widespread force to try to keep the USSR together because he feared chaos in a nuclear country. By the end of his rule he was powerless to halt the whirlwind he had sown. Yet Gorbachev may have had a greater impact on the second half of the 20th century than any other political figure.
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