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The cosmonaut who watched the Soviet Union collapse from space, Sergei Krikalev’s Mir mission

During a long mission aboard the Mir space station, Sergei Krikalev witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union from orbit, leaving him effectively stranded in space as his country vanished below. His ...
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Why no one talks about what happened to Russians after collapse of Soviet Union

Imagine waking up and your country just… doesn’t exist anymore. That’s what happened to nearly 300 million people when the Soviet Union collapsed. Their flag vanished, their savings evaporated, and ...
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Georgia's tea growers work to revive an industry that collapsed with the Soviet Union

ANASEULI, Georgia (Reuters) -When Lika Megreladze was a child, life in her native western Georgian region of Guria revolved around tea. Her mother worked for decades as a scientist at the Soviet Union ...
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Hardline coup set the stage for Soviet collapse 30 years ago

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MOSCOW (AP) — The world held its breath 30 ...
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Georgia's tea growers work to revive an industry that collapsed with the Soviet Union

Georgia once produced the bulk of Soviet Union's tea Production fell by 99% after Soviet Union broke up Small producers focus on quality to revive niche industry ANASEULI, Georgia, July 18 (Reuters) - ...