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6h 30min, jun 16, 1989 y - Unraveling of the Soviet Bloc - June 1989

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Mikhail Gorbachev assumed the reins of power with the Soviet Union in 1985, no one had predicted the revolution he would bring. Gorbachev introduced the policies of glasnost and perestroika to the USSR. This caused the unraveling of the Soviet Bloc began in Poland in June 1989.

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6h 30min, jun 16, 1989 y
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~ 37 years ago

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