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The Break-Up of the Soviet Union
By the end of the year Gorbachev had resigned and the Soviet Union was no more. Dina Newman has spoken to the former President of Belorussia, Stanislav Shushkevich, and the former President of ...
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Jimmy Carter, who died at 100, left a lasting Cold War legacy: His human rights focus helped dismantle the Soviet Union
By the late 1970s, the Soviet Union’s economy and global influence were weakening. With the counsel of National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Soviet expert, Carter exploited these ...
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The Break-Up of the Soviet Union
Show more December 1991 saw the end of 70 years of communist rule and the collapse of the Soviet Union. We hear from two ... nuclear expert who helped clean-up the former USSR.