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Gorbachev's impact on the fall of the USSR
The clip begins with a short history of the Soviet Union, its origins, leaders and ideologies, before describing how the global economic climate of the 1980s and Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms played an important role in the fall of Communism and the dissolution of the USSR.
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