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Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler
Nice try, but by 1990, Gorbachev had already been in power for several years, and had already gone a long way toward defusing the cold war tension and toward arms limitations. Not that I consider Gorbachev a great man or anything, but he had actually accomplished something in the cause of world peace. Granted, though, he wasn't the first black president of the Soviet Union...
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Not too mention being President of a very oppressive Soviet Union that was working towards fixing that oppresion.