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_______ was the leader who rose to power just after Soviet Union dissolved.

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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Boris Yeltsin

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Vladimir Putin

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Colonel Nasser

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The correct option is B Boris Yeltsin
In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as general secretary of the Communist Party of Soviet Union. He resigned from his position in 1991. Boris Yeltsin became a leader after the dissolution of the USSR. Nasser was the president of Egypt during the war in 1967.

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