FILE - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev chats to Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko, March 26, 1985 in Moscow at a meeting of the Supreme Soviet or parliament, of the Russian Republic. When Gorbachev came to power as Soviet leader in 1985, he was younger and more vibrant than his predecessors. He dramatically broke with the Communist past by moving away from a police state, embracing freedom of the press, ending his country's war in Afghanistan and letting go of Eastern European countries that had been locked in Moscow's grip for decades. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko)