Alexa Gorbin, the great-granddaughter of Mikhail Gorbachev, who unleashes passions on the Internet.

He has dark hair, almond-shaped eyes and a full mouth. On TikTok, Alexa Gorby, for Gorbachev, documents her daily life through humorous videos that she shares with her nearly 15,000 subscribers. But her most famous video, released on June 13, remains the one in which we see her as a little girl with her great-grandfather, Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the USSR, hugely popular in his country, who died in August 2022. At the age of 91. Amassing nearly 800,000 likes, 5.4 million views and proudly pinned to the young woman’s profile, the sequence turns into a slideshow of two photos, one of which shows her, still a child, during the holiday season. the arm of his elder. “10/10 to my great-grandfather for helping to tear down the Berlin Wall, end the Cold War, and dissolve the USSR,” he wrote in the caption. “We had Gorbachev’s granddaughter on TikTok before GTA VI, that’s crazy,” read stunned netizens.

The father of “Perestroika”.

A major player in 20th century history, Mikhail Gorbachev was the last General Secretary of the Communist Party and contributed to many upheavals in Russia. The initiator of German reunification with the fall of the Berlin Wall, we are also indebted to the end of the Soviet-Afghan War in the 1980s and the era of “perestroika”, which aimed to modernize the economic and social reforms of the Soviet Union after the end of the Cold War; If for some he was a head of state with progressive ideas, convinced of the importance of civil rights, Mikhail Gorbachev is recognized by others as the person who initiated the collapse of the Soviet Union, rather than the state. The fact remains that he is one of the most influential and popular leaders of his country.

Thus, the news on social networks unleashed the Internet users. “I got 04 in history and geography thanks to your grandfather”; “What a hero, great respect to him, you and your whole family”; “This is the most amazing thing I’ve seen so far”, “Gorby literally saved the world, so good to be one of his descendants”, “I will always admire Gorbachev for his historical influence. Respect”, we can read for the most positive comments. “He did good things, but he failed in his job as a leader.” “Gorbachev is normative”; “Let’s not forget that he hid many things from the people, including the extent of the damage from Chernobyl, and allowed people to be irradiated all the way home,” among the most negative. Comments, however, in the minority, which did not make his successor hesitate. “I miss you,” she captioned her post.