March 2 marks the 90th birthday of mikhail Gorbachev, the last supreme leader of the Soviet Union, and both Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden congratulated him. Putin called Gorbachev a prominent contemporary statesman; Biden thanked Gorbachev for his "loyalty to freedom" and said "the world has become a safer place." The leaders of britain and Germany also expressed congratulations.
Mikhail Gorbachev Image source Russian Satellite News Agency
According to the Russian Satellite News Agency reported on March 2, Biden said in a congratulatory message: "On behalf of the American people, I congratulate you on your happy 90th birthday, an important milestone in your legendary life, thank you for your loyalty to freedom and your courage to make difficult but necessary decisions over the decades, the world has become a safer place, which is still a source of inspiration to this day." ”
U.S. President Joe Biden's congratulatory message
According to the Russian Satellite News Agency on March 2, Putin's congratulatory message was published on the kremlin's official website. Putin wrote in the congratulatory message: "Please accept my congratulations on your 90th birthday. You deserve to be a remarkable, extraordinary generation, and you are an outstanding contemporary statesman who has had a major impact on the course of national and world history. Putin also said that Gorbachev's rich professional and life experience, energy and creativity helped him participate in public and educational work, and paid attention to the implementation of international humanitarian projects.
Gorbachev was the first and last president of the Soviet Union. He was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991, first as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the COMMUNIST Party of the Soviet Union, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, and then president of the USSR. After the signing of the Belovezh Agreement in December 1991, Gorbachev announced his resignation as President of the Soviet Union.
In addition, according to the British Reuters agency reported on March 2, Gorbachev's spokesman Vladimir Polyakov said that British Prime Minister Johnson and German Chancellor Angela Merkel and others also expressed congratulations to Gorbachev.