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Turning point · The Cold War, 1945–1991
Belovezha Accords

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.”
This is one scene of Chapter 12 — The End — and the Arguments in The Cold War, 1945–1991.
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