A remarkable Pizza Hut advert filmed in 1998 which featured Mikhail Gorbachev has resurfaced following the death of the former leader of the USSR yesterday aged 91.Gorbachev was a incredibly liberal and amiable politician whose policies of 'glasnost' (openness) and 'perestroika' (rebuilding) helped bring about an end to the Cold War and introduce sorely needed democratic and economic reform in .But such radical changes unleashed forces beyond his control, and battles between hardliners intent on preserving centralised power and separatists set on dismantling it hastened the total collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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