20 Years Since The Fall of the Soviet Union - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic “Hundreds of thousands of protesters pack Moscow’s Manezh Square next to the Kremlin, on March 10, 1991, demanding that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and his fellow Communists give up power. The crowd, estimated at 500,000, was the biggest anti-government demonstration in the 73 years of since the Communists took power, and came a week before the nationwide referendum on Gorbachev’s union treaty. (AP Photo/Dominique Mollard)” Hard to believe it’s 20 years since the fall of the USSR on December 25, 1991.

20 Years Since The Fall of the Soviet Union - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic “Hundreds of thousands of protesters pack Moscow’s Manezh Square next to the Kremlin, on March 10, 1991, demanding that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and his fellow Communists give up power. The crowd, estimated at 500,000, was the biggest anti-government demonstration in the 73 years of since the Communists took power, and came a week before the nationwide referendum on Gorbachev’s union treaty. (AP Photo/Dominique Mollard)”

Hard to believe it’s 20 years since the fall of the USSR on December 25, 1991.

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  1. balalaikaboss reblogged this from dmitrymedvedev and added:
    We are the first generation never to know the Soviet Union. 0.o I’ve always been a little weirded out by that.
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