It was years in the making, but when it actually came, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 occurred suddenly. In the ...
The following day, the 26th, the Soviet Union was no more. Dissolved was the 74-year reign of mass murder, the persecution of freedom and an imperial obsession with imposing communism on every corner ...
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Why the Soviet Union came apart from within

The Soviet Union’s collapse was the result of long-term internal pressures rather than a sudden defeat. This video explores ...