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 ... ... – eroded. Attempts to create a ‘centralized’ or unipolar global system of governance simply failed. In 2005, Vladimir Putin described the disintegration of the Soviet Union as a major geopolitical catastrophe. The West viewed this statement ...
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