Cold War · TURNING POINT ·
Belovezha Accords (1991)
8 Dec 1991 — In a hunting lodge in the Belarusian forest, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus sign the USSR out of existence: “the Soviet Union as a subject of international law… has ceased to exist.”
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- End of the Cold War (chapter 12 of Cold War)
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- The Cold War, 1945–1991
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- Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia
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