1923 Alexander Yakovlev was born

95 years ago, on December 2, 1923, Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev was born, a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU, who oversaw issues of ideology, information and culture. Yakovlev became the chief architect of Gorbachev's perestroika. He believed that "the political conclusions of Marxism are unacceptable for the emerging civilization, which is looking for a way to mitigate conflicts and initial contradictions of being."