On December 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, announced his resignation, a decision that reverberated across the globe. His tenure, characterized by the policies of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring), aimed to reform the Soviet system but inadvertently led to its downfall.
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