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Ex-USSR Leader Mikhail Gorbachev Dies
Gorbachev distinguished himself from former USSR leaders by his handling of pro-democracy protests in Eastern Europe. Instead of crushing these like previous Kremlin leaders had done—recall the tanks sent into Hungary in 1956 and then into Czechoslovakia in 1968—Gorbachev went a diplomatic route.