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Who was newly appointed to be the president of the Soviet Union

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Within three years of the death of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, following the brief regimes of Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko, the politburo elected Gorbachev as General Secretary, the de facto head of government, in 1985
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