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The Fall of the Soviet Union
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The collapse of the Soviet Union from Brezhnev's stagnation to December 1991. Not Cold War triumphalism — the internal story: a command economy that couldn't feed Siberia, the nationalities question Lenin never solved, the Afghanistan disaster, Chernobyl breaking the spell, Gorbachev's reform gamble, Eastern Europe walking out in 1989, the Baltic chain, the August coup, and Yeltsin on a tank. The prequel to Putin's Russia. — a daily series with new episodes every day.
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