The Breakup of the USSR
Summary In 1991 a Coup D’etat takes place in disagreement to Gorbachev's ideas. Fortunately Boris Yeltsin came to the rescue and eventually becomes the leader of the country. Yeltsin later makes the final steps to outlaw the communist party in the Russian Republic.
Quote"We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it."
-Borris Yeltsin QuestionThe independence vote changed Russia and created the commonwealth on Independent states but without that vote, what could have ended the USSR?
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