In 1988 Mikhail Gorbachev visited the USA on a state visit and experienced celebrity treatment in Times Square in New York as he came to visit the new president elect George H.W. Bush. This episode explores this fateful visit and as the Soviet Union crumbled from within and Gorbachev’s formative years and career in the Communist Party its machinery.Help the podcast to continue bringing you history each weekIf you enjoy the Explaining History podcast and its many years of content and would like t
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