“Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy. But side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency...”

About Mikhail Gorbachev

Politician • Russian

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union. His policies of glasnost ('openness') and perestroika ('restructuring') were pivotal in ending the...