US President comments on Gorbachev's death

31.08.2022, 15:46 rubryka.com

US President Joe Biden called the last leader of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, a person who risked his career for a better future This is discussed in Biden's statement, released by the press service of the White House. The US president noted that Gorbachev had adopted democratic reforms after decades of brutal political repression. "He believed in glasnost and perestroika–openness and restructuring–not as mere slogans, but as the path forward for the people of the Soviet Union after so many years of isolation and deprivation," Biden emphasized.