It happened on this day - 31st Dec in 1991

in hive-193186 •  22 days ago 

On this day in 1991, the Soviet Union CCCP ceased to exist officially. The Russian Federation became the successor state, inheriting the Soviet Union's UN Security Council seat and its nuclear arsenal.

It had been a turbulent month. Revolution occurered in Moscow and Boris Yeltsin rose in power, famously waving the new Russian tricolour in front of the Parliament building. Gorbachev resigned as President of the USSR on 25th December, the Soviet flag was lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, replaced by the Russian tricolor. The Cold War finally ended, and Russia started to embrace new freedoms. A brief window of Russia embracing democracy and looking west to the developed world was unfortunately not to last, as we now know welll...

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  ·  22 days ago (edited)

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