• Gorbachev, last Soviet leader, was prominent Putin critic.
• In the weeks before his death, Gorbachev reportedly revealed to a close friend, Russian journalist Alexei Venediktov, he believed Putin had “destroyed” his “life’s work.”
• Gorbachev oversaw a series of reforms in Soviet Union that helped lead to the communist empire’s collapse.
• While one of Putin’s most prominent Russian critics, however, he supported Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.

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