ACTOR
Mikhail Gorbachev
- Known for
- In weiter Ferne, so nah! (1993)
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Mikhail Gorbachev is an actor best known for In weiter Ferne, so nah!.
All facts (25)
- #001
Mikhail Gorbachev appeared in a Pizza Hut commercial, making him the only Communist Party official to do advertising work.
- #002
Mikhail Gorbachev won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990. He resigned from the presidency of the USSR on Christmas Day 1991.
- #003
Mikhail Gorbachev was the former leader of the USSR.
- #004
Mikhail Gorbachev was Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (25 May 1989 – 15 March 1990).
- #005
In August 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev was briefly overthrown by a group of Communist Party supporters angered by his policies, but he returned to power a few days later because of widespread opposition to the coup across the country.
- #006
Mikhail Gorbachev is the president of Green Cross International, a Switzerland-based environmental organization.
- #007
Mikhail Gorbachev was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (11 March 1985 – 24 August 1991).
- #008
Mikhail Gorbachev was President of the USSR (15 March 1990 – 25 December 1991) — and the only person to hold that office.
- #009
Although Mikhail Gorbachev was seen as a hero in most of the world, he was not much loved in Russia, owing to the perception that his policies brought the country close to Third World status.
- #010
Mikhail Gorbachev died only 9 days before Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, whom he knew personally.
- #011
Mikhail Gorbachev became a full member of the CPSU in 1952.
- #012
Under Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union dissolved without descending into civil war, as happened during the breakup of Yugoslavia.
- #013
Mikhail Gorbachev was the first person to receive the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award, and in 1994 he was awarded the Grawemeyer Award by the University of Louisville in Kentucky.
- #014
Mikhail Gorbachev's decision to allow the Eastern Bloc to break apart prevented serious bloodshed in Central and Eastern Europe; as Taubman noted, this meant the "Soviet Empire" ended far more peacefully than the British Empire had a few decades earlier.
- #015
By 1955 Mikhail Gorbachev's hair was thinning, and by the end of the 1960s he had gone bald, with a distinct port-wine stain appearing on the top of his head.
- #016
Mikhail Gorbachev drank sparingly because he disliked hard liquor, and he did not smoke.
- #017
Mikhail Gorbachev spoke with a southern Russian accent and was known to sing both folk and pop songs.
- #018
In 2000, Mikhail Gorbachev was given the American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award at a ceremony held at Hampton Court Palace near London.
- #019
Throughout the 1960s, Mikhail Gorbachev struggled with obesity and went on diets to keep the problem under control.
- #020
In 1988, India awarded Mikhail Gorbachev the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development.
- #021
Gorbachev's negotiations with the United States helped bring the Cold War to an end and reduced the threat of nuclear conflict.
- #022
According to The New York Times, "In the 20th century, indeed in any century, few leaders have had such a profound effect on their times. In a little more than six tumultuous years, Mr. Gorbachev decisively changed the world's political climate by raising the Iron Curtain."
- #023
Mikhail Gorbachev was awarded the Charles V Prize by the European Academy of Yuste Foundation in 2002.
- #024
In 1970, he was appointed First Party Secretary of the Stavropol Regional Committee and oversaw the construction of the Great Stavropol Canal.
- #025
He was the only Soviet leader born after the country's founding.
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