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dec 26, 1991 - Collapse of the Soviet Union

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The Soviet's hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time to be replaced by the Russian flag. Before that Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the new independent Russian state.

President : George H. W. Bush

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Date:

dec 26, 1991
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~ 33 years ago