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Mikhail Gorbachev became the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thus the leader of the USSR, in 1985.

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Leonid Brezhnev became the new Soviet leader in 1964 (not 1963 as the question states).

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Mikhail Gorbachev .

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Ol' good comrade Mihail Gorbachev.

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