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Who proposed the need for openness and introduced reforms like Glasnost and Perestroika?

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Nikita Khrushchev
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Leonid Brezhnev
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Boris Yeltsin
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The correct option is C Mikhail Gorbachev
In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev was elected general secretary of the Communist Party of Soviet Union. Gorbachev stressed on the need to come out of Brezhnev’s strict policies. Instead, he proposed the need for openness and introduced reforms like Glasnost and Perestroika.

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