US President comments on Gorbachev’s death

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.

According to the President of the United States, not all Soviet officials had the courage to recognize the need for change.

"These were the acts of a rare leader–one with the imagination to see that a different future was possible and the courage to risk his entire career to achieve it.

The result was a safer world and greater freedom for millions of people," Biden said.

We will remind you that on August 30, after a severe and prolonged illness, the first and last President of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, died.

Reference

Mikhail Gorbachev is a Soviet and russian political, public, and party figure:

• the last General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Council Communist Party;
• the last chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR;
• the first chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR;
• The first and only President of the USSR.

He had several awards and titles. The most famous among them is the Nobel Peace Prize.

We will remind you that on May 10, the first president of independent Ukraine, chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR of the 10th-11th convocations and People's Deputy of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk passed away.

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