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The cosmonaut who watched the Soviet Union collapse from space, Sergei Krikalev’s Mir mission
During a long mission aboard the Mir space station, Sergei Krikalev witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union from orbit, leaving him effectively stranded in space as his country vanished below. His ...
Imagine waking up and your country just… doesn’t exist anymore. That’s what happened to nearly 300 million people when the Soviet Union collapsed. Their flag vanished, their savings evaporated, and ...
November 8, 2025: Russian leader Vladimir Putin believes it was a mistake to break up the Soviet Union in 1991 and many Russians agree with him. The fourteen new nations created or revived when the ...
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