25 Years Ago – The last day of the Soviet Union

[Locutus]

On December 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachov resigned as President of the Soviet Union.

The red flag was lowered at the Kremlin, and the next day, the Soviet Union ceased to exist.

The BBC reported:

Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union for almost seven years and executive president for nearly two, has stepped down from office.

He announced his resignation in a 10 minute speech, broadcast live on television, as the Soviet Union passed into history.

It has been replaced by the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

The 60-year-old appeared solemn but composed.

“Due to the situation which has evolved as a result of the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent states I hereby discontinue my activities at the post of president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,” he said.

He said he was resigning on a matter of principle, adding the decision to dismantle the state should have been made “on the basis of popular will”.

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25 Years Ago – The last day of the Soviet Union (December 25, 1991)

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[Blackleaf]

And the USSR broke up, giving Europe loads of new countries, visited by globetrotter Michael Palin in his brilliant travelogue "New Europe."

 

[taxslave]

What it created is a vast criminal empire ruled by a dictator and a bunch of thugs.

 

[Blackleaf]

The EUSSR will collapse in the same way the USSR collapsed.

Some of the nations making up the USSR, however, no longer exist. Who remembers Kirghizia, part of the USSR between 1936 and 1990? There is no such nation nowadays. It was an independent nation state between 1991 and 1993, when suddenly it ceased to exist.

 

[Danbones]

What it created is a vast criminal empire ruled by a dictator and a bunch of thugs.

the clintons and bushes and their arms/dope dealing lone shark banker buddies are russian?
...to the escape goats maybe
lol

MOSCOW – Donald Trump's statement that Russian President Vladimir Putin enjoys an 82 percent approval rating among his people wasn't hyperbole. Russia's two main polling agencies consistently give the man in the Kremlin ratings that would be the envy of Trump or his rival in the U.S. presidential election, Hillary Clinton
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/09/08/putin-popularity-envy-other-politicians.html

 

[Danbones]

President Obama has just quietly signed into law a bill that makes it illegal to run an alternative media website in the U.S.
On Friday, just two days before Christmas, Obama signed the “Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017” bill into law.
Obama Signs Christmas Bill Making Alternative Media Illegal – InvestmentWatch

the commies aren't gone

 

[taxslave]

the clintons and bushes and their arms/dope dealing lone shark banker buddies are russian?
...to the escape goats maybe
lol

MOSCOW – Donald Trump's statement that Russian President Vladimir Putin enjoys an 82 percent approval rating among his people wasn't hyperbole. Russia's two main polling agencies consistently give the man in the Kremlin ratings that would be the envy of Trump or his rival in the U.S. presidential election, Hillary Clinton
Putin's popularity: the envy of other politicians | Fox News

State controlled polling agencies. About as believable as the political party controlled ones here.

 

[Danbones]

thats a good point
but I suspect Vlad does have a high rating, judging by some of the localish respectable people I know who respect him

 

[MHz]

The era that followed that was when the international companies were the ruling power using the same methods they use everyplace they go, reward a few and rob the many in exchange for 'the donation'. 'VP' came in when that era was coming to an end so it is just about where DT is coming in with the US and how big biz runs the place. (and should be coming to an abrupt end)