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Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the Gorbachev Fund in Moscow, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2001. During the interview Gorbachev placed major blame for the August 1991 coup on a small group of senior Communist officials who couldn't accept his reform plans that would have given greater freedom to the 15 Soviet republics. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War, died Tuesday. The last Soviet leader was 91.
Originally published at Associated Press