Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Several men presided over the Soviet Union during the Cold War; the last leader of the Soviet Union was Boris Yel'tsin.
the breakup of the Soviet Union
No. Boris Yeltsin was the leader of Russia as the Soviet Union was ending (note that he was the leader of the Russian part of the Soviet Union; he was not the leader of the Soviet Union itself), and then he was the first President of Russia after the breakup of the Soviet Union. East Germany was ruled by Walter Ulbricht from 1950 until 1971, and then from 1971 until 1989 it was ruled by Erich Honecker. It was briefly ruled by Egon Krenz in 1989 as the country collapsed and reunified with West Germany.
The overthrow of the government in Nicaragua
immigration policies
It was the breakup of the Soviet Union.
the spetsnaz was russias elite fighting force from the end of WW2 until the breakup of the soviet union and are actually still around today, fighting terrorism in russia
The Soviet reoccupation of Afghanistan early in Gorbachev's presidency
Brezhnev became the Soviet leader after Khruschev.
Boris Yeltsin was elected the President of Russia in June 1991, in the first direct presidential election in Russian history.
Answer:Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union.