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TIL That, shortly after the Berlin Wall fell, Eugene Stoner, inventor of the AR-15, and Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the AK-47, met near Washington DC and developed a friendship that lasted until Stoner’s death seven years later.

by whatilearned March 20, 2023, 12:21 am

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TIL that Ruhollah Khomeini’s only written message to a foreign leader was a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev, telling him that communism was doomed and suggesting that Gorbachev convert to Islam.

by whatilearned September 9, 2022, 1:02 am

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The Contradictory Legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev

by HistoryBuff September 2, 2022, 7:43 pm

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Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union’s final leader, dies

by HistoryBuff August 30, 2022, 9:50 pm

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TIL of Mikhail Kalinin, the head of state of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1946. His title was just nominal though, and he held little influence. So little that Kalinin was powerless to do anything when his wife, Ekaterina, was arrested, tortured and imprisoned for criticizing Joseph Stalin.

by whatilearned November 19, 2021, 6:11 pm

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TIL Mikhail Gorbachev’s ‘Perestroika’ tried to implement capitalism with the “Law on Cooperatives” permitting ownership of businesses. Joint ventures allowed foreigners to own upto 49% of a venture. Despite this, the USSR economy remained sluggish in the 1980’s & collapsed in the 1990’s.

by whatilearned October 13, 2021, 11:17 am

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TIL that former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ran for the Russian Presidency in 1996, nearly five years after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He came in 7th.

by whatilearned August 12, 2021, 1:16 am

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TIL that Mikhail Gorbachev is still alive and living in Russia. I mean… that’s weird, right?

by whatilearned July 20, 2021, 7:45 am

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TIL Mikhail Gorbachev (The last soviet president, still alive) is the only president of the USSR that is actually born in the USSR. The others were born in the Russian empire or other countries.

by whatilearned July 15, 2021, 2:20 pm

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TIL of Mikhail Devyataev, a Soviet fighter pilot who in Feb 1945 escaped a Nazi concentration camp near Peenemünde with nine other POWs by taking over the commandant’s He 111 bomber. The NKVD didn’t believe his story and classified him as a criminal, but in 1957 he became a Hero of the Soviet Union.

by whatilearned June 21, 2021, 11:04 am

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TIL that Mikhail Gorbachev was the only Soviet leader who was born when the Soviet Union already existed.

by whatilearned April 19, 2021, 5:42 pm

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TIL Subutai won 65 battles as general of the Mongol Empire including defeating a Russian army of 80K with only 20K soldiers. His tactics were studied by Mikhail Ivanin in the 19th century & incorporated into Russian military academies & the Red Army.

by whatilearned March 31, 2021, 5:01 pm

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