A very momentous date, June 12th -- President Reagan's makes his historic "Tear Down that Wall" speech in Berlin, and Russia separates from the old Soviet Union three years to the day thereafter.
Unlike Gorbachev's recent take on the end of the Cold War, it seems more likely to have been a win-win situation for all of Europe...
declaration of sovereignty from the Soviet Union. What the hell kind of revisionist history is this? Russia was the head of the Soviet Union no? The occupied satellites left the Soviet Union in droves and Russia is what's left of it all if my memory serves me correctly.