Now and Then: '20 Years After the Soviet Collapse'

a must see...........text, pics and video.........from eurasianet........

"By the time Mikhail Gorbachev went on Soviet TV on Christmas night in 1991 and declared the Soviet Union officially dead, the “euphoria” in the new countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia over the promise of democracy was already fading." 

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