Was Gorbachev in a Pizza Hut commercial?

In 1998, former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev was featured in a television advertisement by Pizza Hut. In the commercial, a family inside the Pizza Hut restaurant discusses Gorbachev’s political legacy.

How did Gorbachev get a Nobel Peace Prize?

In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell, and the Cold War between East and West was brought to a halt. In 1990, the Nobel Committee gave President Gorbachev the main credit for this by awarding him the Peace Prize. After the war, he studied law in Moscow and pursued a career in the Communist Party.

Who was Mikhail Gorbachev’s wife?

Gorbachev met his future wife, Raisa Titarenko, daughter of a Ukrainian railway engineer, at Moscow State University. They married on 25 September 1953 and moved to Stavropol upon graduation. She gave birth to their only child, daughter Irina Mikhailovna Virganskaya (Ири́на Миха́йловна Вирга́нская), in 1957.

What was Mikhail Gorbachev’s aim and intent?

And, last but not least, Gorbachev’s aim and intent was to resolve problems that had been CAUSED by communism without removing communists from office. The Apparatchiks tasked with fixing things (And implicitly removing their own status ans “perks”) was never going to happen.

What did Khrushchev do in the Stavropol region?

Moving to Stavropol, he worked for the Komsomol youth organization and, after Stalin’s death, became a keen proponent of the de-Stalinization reforms of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. He was appointed the First Party Secretary of the Stavropol Regional Committee in 1970, in which position he oversaw construction of the Great Stavropol Canal.

What happened to the Soviet economy in 1985?

By 1985, Soviet economy was in a poor condition. Plan economy, arms race, shortage of FCMG goods including food, people growing tired of the leading role of the communist party, war in Afghanistan that cost 15 000 lives. You name it.