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Created page with "== Early Life == Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born on 2 March 1931 in Privolnoye, Stavropol Territory, in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, to a poor peasant family. His father, Sergey Andreyevich Gorbachev, was a combine harvester operator and World War II veteran, while his mother, Maria Panteleyevna Gorbacheva (née Gopkalo), was a kolkhoz worker. Image:Detail-36733.jpg|thumb|center|A rural landscape with a small village in t..."