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jan 1, 1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev

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Gorbachev becomes the president of the Soviet Union in 1985. He pursued two new policies that were glasnost and perestroika. Those two policies gave the Russian people more freedom.

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jan 1, 1985
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~ 41 years ago

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