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25 Years On, Collapse of Soviet Union Still Brings Cheers—and Tears. The U.S.S.R. was officially dissolved on December 26, 1991. A veteran National Geographic writer reflects on events that must ...
1 de set. de 2017 · The Soviet Union, or U.S.S.R., was made up of 15 countries in Eastern Europe and Asia and lasted from 1922 until its fall in 1991. The Soviet Union was the world’s first Marxist-Communist state ...
17 de abr. de 2018 · Following springtime popular-vote referendums, Gorbachev acknowledged the three states’ separations in August and September 1991, several months prior to the Soviet Union’s Christmas Day demise.
19 de ago. de 2021 · On August 19, 1991, Russians awoke to looping videos of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake on Soviet state TV — a sure sign something seismic was up.
In January 1991 attacks by Soviet forces on the television station in Vilnius, Lithuania, resulted in the deaths of at least 14 civilians and 1 KGB officer. Among the troops used were Special Purpose Police Units, known by the Russian acronym OMON, the feared “black berets” of the Ministry of Internal Affairs .
21 de dez. de 2021 · Washington, D.C., December 21, 2021 – On Christmas Day 30 years ago, the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, stepped down and the hammer-and-sickle flags over the Kremlin were replaced with the red-white-and-blue of the Russian Federation. Triumphalists and conspiracy theorists ever since have attributed this epochal event to ...
24 de dez. de 2021 · How the Soviet Union's collapse explains the current Russia-Ukraine tension To understand the friction between Russia and Ukraine, it's important to go back to 1991. Exactly 30 years ago this ...
