It’s been 30 years since the Soviet Union dissolved in the wake of a bungled reform effort by Soviet leader Mikhail #Gorbachev, elected General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in 1985. The #SovietUnion, created by the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, consisted of 16 constituent republics, named for their majority nationality (Russian, Ukrainian, Georgian and so on). #USSR

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