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Tribute to Soviet Union's great reformist, Mikhail Gorbachev

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 Russia's President Vladimir Putin, right, talks with former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at the start of a news conference at the Castle of Gottorf in Schleswig, northern Germany, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2004. [AP Photo]

Growing up, we knew that the world had two superpowers - the United States (US) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), better known as the Soviet Union.

I believed that the USSR was stronger because it had more letters! Both nuclear-armed, the two superpowers just sabre-rattled with nuclear tests. They recruited other countries to their camps.

They gave them either weapons or other aid like training their manpower. But for decades, they never fought each other directly except through proxies like in the Vietnam war.

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