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Why Many Young Russians See a Hero in Putin
In December 1991, just months before he was born, the Soviet flag came down over ... cheering the arrival of democracy. But on returning home after the Soviet Union’s demise, he was forced ...
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When The United States Broke Into 2 Countries, Had 2 Presidents, 2 Flags
At dusk on Christmas day, 1991, the iconic hammer-and-sickle flag of the erstwhile Soviet Union ... world's oldest democracy' - the United States of America - then only a union of 34 states ...