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26th December 1991: The USSR formally dissolved

  • 26th December 2020
  • Tagged as: Cold War, Gorbachev, Politics, Russia, Soviet Union, USSR

On the 26th December 1991, the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union met for the last time to formally dissolve itself and the Soviet Union.

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19th November 1985: Reagan and Gorbachev meet for the first time at the Geneva Summit

  • 19th November 2020
  • Tagged as: Cold War, Communism, Gorbachev, Reagan, USA, USSR

U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev met for the first time at the Geneva Summit.

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12th June 1987: Ronald Reagan calls on Mikhail Gorbachev to ‘Tear down this wall!’

  • 12th June 2019
  • Tagged as: America, Berlin, Berlin Wall, Cold War, Gorbachev, Reagan, Unification

US President Ronald Reagan made a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in which he called on the USSR’s leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, to ‘Tear down this wall!’

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28th May 1987: West German amateur pilot lands a plane near Red Square

  • 28th May 2019
  • Tagged as: Aircraft, Cold War, Germany, Gorbachev, USSR

On the 28th May 1987, an eighteen year-old amateur pilot from Hamburg in West Germany illegally landed a private aircraft near Moscow’s Red Square.

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