Dissolution of the Soviet Union
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Le Nouvel Observateur: You do not regret having fostered Islamist fundamentalism, having armed and advised future terrorists? Zbigniew Brzezinski: What is more important for world history? The Taliban or the fall of the Soviet empire? A few hot-headed Islamists or the liberations of Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War? Le Nouvel Observateur: A few hotheads? But let us say it once more: Islamic fundamentalism today represents a global threat. Zbigniew Brzezinski: Nonsense. They say that the West ought to have a global policy for dealing with Islamism. That's stupid: there is no global Islamism. --Le Nouvel Observateur interview, January 15, 1998 |
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved on 26 December 1991 by declaration № 142-H of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
See also
- Breakup of Yugoslavia
- Dissolution of Czechoslovakia
- German reunification
- History of Russia (1992–present)
- History of the Soviet Union (1982–1991)
- Predictions of Soviet collapse
- Yugoslav Wars