This Day in History: Lithuania became the first Soviet republic to declare its independence

On March 11, 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet Republic to declare its independence from the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R.
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Information Warfare: Shrinking Russian Soviet Influence

November 8, 2025: Russian leader Vladimir Putin believes it was a mistake to break up the Soviet Union in 1991 and many Russians agree with him. The fourteen new nations created or revived when the ...
TASS

Procedure of USSR dissolution in 1991 was violated — presidential adviser

Anton Kobyakov emphasized that a proper legal assessment of the USSR's dissolution is essential to fully understand current geopolitical developments MOSCOW, May 21. /TASS/. In 1991, the dissolution ...
The Washington Post

Why Is Russia Still Peddling This Old Soviet Lie?

The Soviet Union is still dead, but some Soviet fictions live on. The Russian government's recent statements in defense of the Soviet occupation of the Baltics are more than just bewildering or ...
The Daily Star

Khrushchev’s Secret Speech: The 4 hours that shattered Stalin’s empire

Seven decades ago, in the early hours of February 25, 1956, inside the precincts of the Kremlin, Nikita Khrushchev, the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, stood before a ...