Thirteen months later, on December 25, 1991, Gorbachev resigned and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics dissolved. President Bush and his chief foreign ...

4 нояб. 2019 г. · Within the Soviet Union itself, it did, killing 21 pro-independence protesters in the Soviet republic of Georgia. But elsewhere in the communist ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union accelerated the push for deeper European integration, a project that had begun in earnest in ...

Gorbachev's decision to loosen the Soviet yoke on the countries of Eastern Europe created an independent, democratic momentum that led to the collapse of the ...

Established crossing points between the Western and Soviet sectors were closed, dividing neighbourhoods and separating families overnight. From this barbed wire ...

Its downfall increased the United States' influence as a global power and created an opportunity for corruption and crime in Russia. It also prompted many ...

8 нояб. 2019 г. · Shortly after the occupation zones were split, the Soviet Union made a power grab for the entire city of Berlin, surrounding it in a blockade. ...

On 9 November 1989, during the Peaceful Revolution, marked the beginning of the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the figurative Iron Curtain. Fall of the inner German border · Malta Summit · 9 November in German history

8 нояб. 2019 г. · The end of travel restrictions between East and West Germany dealt a death blow to the closed society of the Soviet Union.