Gorbachev Wins Nobel Peace Prize: The Man Ending the Cold War
Mikhail Gorbachev accepted the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize, confirming international recognition of his reforms that dismantled Cold War hostilities and opened the Soviet Union to the world. This award validated the specific policy shifts of glasnost and perestroika, accelerating the collapse of Soviet control over Eastern Europe within months.
October 15, 1990
36 years ago
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