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MOSCOW. General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), Mikhail Gorbachev waves to marchers as he stands atop the Lenin Mausoleum, flanked by Defence Minister of the USSR, Sergei Sokolov (L) and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, Nikolai Tikhonov (R), during a 1985 May Day demonstration in Moscow's Red Square. (KEYSTONE/ITAR-TASS/Vladimir Musaelyan) ===