How old was Mikhail Gorbachev when he ecame a member of the Politburo ?
According to former CPSU Politburo member Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev , the new party was a joint project of CPSU leadership and the KGB He described how KGB director Vladimir Kryuchkov presented the project of the puppet party at a meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev and informed him about his selection of LDPR leaders and the mechanism of funding .