MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War, ...
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The cosmonaut who watched the Soviet Union collapse from space, Sergei Krikalev’s Mir mission
During a long mission aboard the Mir space station, Sergei Krikalev witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union from orbit, leaving him effectively stranded in space as his country vanished below. His ...
The Soviet Union had brought up its citizens as believers in scientific atheism, scornful of the tradition-based ...
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