WATCH: How Gorbachev Impacted Soviet Jewry

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, center, is escorted to the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City, June 18, 1992 by Rabbi Yehuda Getz, left. (AP/Jerome Delay) (AP/Jerome Delay)

Renowned Soviet Jewish refusenik Natan Sharansky discusses the impact that Mikhail Gorbachev had on Soviet Jewry as the last president of the USSR.

This week, Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union and Nobel Peace Prize winner, passed away.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog called Gorbachev “one of the 20th century’s most extraordinary figures. He was a brave and visionary leader, who shaped our world in ways previously thought unimaginable.”

Renowned Soviet Jewish refusenik Natan Sharansky discusses the impact that Mikhail Gorbachev had on Soviet Jewry as the last president of the USSR.

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