<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" id="mwASU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mikhail Gorbachev">Mikhail Gorbachev</a> is elected as the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_Soviet_Union" id="mwASY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="President of the Soviet Union">President of the Soviet Union</a>.<sup about="#mwt187" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-36"}}' id="cite_ref-36" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_15#cite_note-36" id="mwASc" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 36;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwASg">[36]</span></a></sup>
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