Ronald Reagan is associated with the events that led to the collapse of the USSR. How much of an influence he really had is a subject for study and debate.
Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, the First President of USSR.
Mikhail Gorbachev was the President of the USSR who encouraged the policy of Glasnost.
US: 1945. USSR: 1949
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The Cold War was global from its inception. The USSR and the US were both large, powerful countries with global interests, so any conflict between the two would necessarily be global in scope.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Martin Van Buren
1959/7/27 but as a vice president
Mikhail Gorbachev, president of the USSR resigned on 25th December 1991.--Swaroop Atnoorkar,Mumbai, Maharashtra,India.
The USSR did not break up and become Russia again. Thinking Russia and the USSR were the same, is a common mistake. Russia was just part of the USSR, along with many other countries. Russia was the largest of the countries that were part of the USSR. In 1991, the USSR broke up and these countries, including Russia, all became independent.
Right before the start of WW2
it helped them win the war. were it not for the Nazi racial policies, many of the countries in the USSR would have joined the Nazis and the USSR would have lost the war.