Answer the questions based on the following image:
In which year was the leader (in the picture) elected as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → 1985
Mikhail Gorbachev (Born 1931) : Last leader of the Soviet Union (1985 91); introduced economic and political reform policies of perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness); stopped the arms race with the US; withdrew Soviet troops from Afghanistan and eastern Europe; helped in the unification of Germany; ended the Cold War; blamed for the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
1985 March: Mikhail Gorbachev elected as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; appoints Boris Yeltsin as the head of the Communist Party in Moscow; initiates a series of reforms in the Soviet Union