Most residents of the former Soviet Union associate the collapse of the union state precisely with the personality of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev. This person is respected and hated at the same time. If Mikhail Sergeyevich was able to take away the Soviet Union, then diligence and determination were always with him. Winner of the Nobel Prize and, surprisingly, the Grammy Awards left politics more than 10 years ago. Currently, presumably, lives in a country house in the suburbs.
Hard childhood
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev - once a simple country boy, who was born on March 2, 1931. He comes from the village of Privolnoe (in the Stavropol Territory). It is worth noting that Michael was not the only child in the family. When the boy turned 16 years old, his brother Sasha appeared.
For many, childhood is the happiest period in their life. But not for Mikhail Sergeyevich. It is known that his family could not boast of material well-being, his parents were just peasants. Work on the land took almost all the time. Therefore, the boy’s childhood passed in poverty. Moreover, his native village was occupied by fascist troops for 5 months, and Mikhail's father was mistakenly considered dead for some time. Nevertheless, Sergey Andreevich always served as a kind of beacon in the life of his son, guiding and supporting him in difficult times.
Already from the age of 13, Misha had to work both on the collective farm and in the MTS. At the same time, he combined physical and mental labor - studying at school also required a lot of time and effort. However, the result was not long in coming.
Student years and civil service
At the age of 19, on the recommendation from school, the young man became a candidate for membership in the Communist Party. In addition, after graduating from school, he was awarded a silver medal. All this allowed him to enroll in law students at Moscow State University without a single exam. So from a simple villager, having secured parental support, he turned, one might say, into a representative of high society.
Two years later, the Communist Party officially accepted Mikhail into its ranks. After a university with higher education in his pocket, he by distribution falls into the regional prosecutor's office of the city of Stavropol. However, after 10 days, Mikhail Sergeyevich became deputy head of the department of agitation and propaganda of the Stavropol Territorial Committee of the Komsomol. Thus, Mikhail Gorbachev promptly walked up the steps of the career ladder. And already in 1961 he became the first secretary of the regional committee of the same Komsomol. The desire to delve into science had to be abandoned. Ahead of him was a large and significant work in the political arena.
In his political biography, there was a place for many roles and positions. Since 1962, he managed to work in the Stavropol Territory and City Committees, in the commissions of the Council of the Union for the Conservation of Nature and Youth Affairs.
In 1974, for a long 15 years, he became one of the deputies of the Council of the Union of the USSR Armed Forces, representing the Stavropol Territory /
In December 1978, Mikhail Gorbachev had to move with his family to Moscow, because there, thanks to Brezhnev, he was promoted to the Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee.
Already 7 years later, the career ladder leads him to the chair of the Secretary General of the CPSU Central Committee (and, in many respects, thanks to the famous Andrei Gromyko).
In 1988, Gorbachev became Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Armed Forces. It would seem that here he is the crown of his career, but in 1990 Mikhail Sergeyevich took the post of president of the USSR. The first and last in the history of this state. Only stars above.
And then everything is like in a fog: the putsch in August 1991, the resignation of the Secretary General, Gorbachev’s resignation from the Communist Party, the Belovezhsk agreement in December of that year. And, as a consequence of all this, the liquidation of the Soviet Union and the formation of the CIS.
After those events, Gorbachev often criticized Yeltsin’s policy, however, in fact, he was far from a winning position. In 1996, he participated in the presidential election in Russia as a candidate. However, he could not get even one percent of the vote.
