The Soviet Union is dead. Long live Russia!
— Boris Yeltsin Contemporary

First Russian Federation president

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Context

Speech after the collapse of the USSR

Date / Period

1991

Category

Controversial

Source

https://www.britannica.com/event/Dissolution-of-the-Soviet-Union

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