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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018.

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Video. Mikhail Gorbachev, last Soviet leader, turns 90 in quarantine

Updated: 02/03/2021 - 15:21 GMT+1

Gorbachev, who is widely credited with ending the Cold War, was very popular in the West, but a much more polarising figure within Russia.

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