in six years of power, the last leader of the USSR changed the world

On Tuesday August 30, Mikhail Gorbachev died at the age of 91. In six years of power, he changed his country and the world. The son of farmers, Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party in 1985, beginning major reforms. Its objective was to save the Soviet regime through democracy. He launched glasnost (transparency) and perestroika (reconstruction).

Appreciated in the West, he signed with US President Ronald Reagan one of the most important disarmament treaties of the Cold War. In 1989 he withdrew the Red Army from Afghanistan. But that year, for the whole world, he was above all the one who allowed the fall of the Berlin Wall. At home, Mikhail Gorbachev is the man of crisis, his Nobel Peace Prize did not prevent him from being booed on the square red, May 1, 1990. On December 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev signed his letter of resignation and at the same time the end of the USSR.