Final Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev Dead At 91

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev has died at age 91, according to multiple reports, more than three decades after he led an unprecedented era of economic reform in the Soviet state that preceded the fall of communism in eastern Europe.
56% : Gorbachev championed his reforms as a way to preserve the Soviet state and bring it into the modern world, but they served to hasten the collapse of communism, especially his move to allow for competitive elections.

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