The Lost Twenty-Five Years
... sovereign republics in which the rights and freedoms of an individual of any nationality will be fully guaranteed.” This was Mikhail Gorbachev’s final attempt to stop the disintegration of a major country. Nine months later, following a referendum ... ... engendered differences that have never been resolved and have – to be clear – become more acute since 2014. For the West – the US and its allies – the collapse of the Soviet Union was a manifestly positive event that ushered in ‘a ...
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