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I was 6 years old when the Soviet Union collapsed and Ukraine stepped into a new era of democracy, free speech and expanded ...

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The Soviet Union became a gerontocracy in its final years, contributing to its collapse. Historians say it's a cautionary tale for the US, whose leaders have been in power for decades.

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50-year-old Soviet spacecraft expected to crash on Earth this weekend. ... 1972, the Soviet Union launched a spacecraft as part of a series of unmanned missions to Venus known as the Venera program.

Before Gorbachev, Soviet leaders never ventured into the streets, let alone pressed the flesh. But in 1985, the youngest-ever Secretary General of the Communist Party swept the old ways aside.

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Back in the old Soviet Union, the political joke was the principal underground conduit of political opinion. One that made the rounds soon after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985 posed this ...

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Finally, much more awkwardly, he oversaw the dissolution of the Soviet Union itself, as it split into 15 nations. “We are now living in a new world,” he said as he stepped down in December 1991.