Multiple factors played a role in the fall of the Soviet Union or USSR, many placing blame on Gorbachev and his failed reforms with others viewing the event as inevitable due to the negative legacy of Brezhnev.

On the 25th of December 1991, the world watched as the most powerful communist country in history collapsed. Following the resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or USSR, dissolved into 15 independent states, marking the federations downfall and ending the Cold War, which had lasted 44 years between the East and the West.

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