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With all the recent tensions caused over Russia's reemergence as a global and regional player, it's rather hard to imagine (especially for recent generations) what the world was once like before the collapse of communism in the late 1980s. Though it may come as a shock to learn that the end of communism didn't necessarily mean the end of the Soviet Union. Prior to its collapse in 1991, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev worked to not only reform the USSR, but to keep it united. This resulted in a "New Union Treaty," which was to be signed on August 20, 1991. The goals of the treaty were to eventually reform the USSR into an equal federation of republics.

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  • With all the recent tensions caused over Russia's reemergence as a global and regional player, it's rather hard to imagine (especially for recent generations) what the world was once like before the collapse of communism in the late 1980s. Though it may come as a shock to learn that the end of communism didn't necessarily mean the end of the Soviet Union. Prior to its collapse in 1991, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev worked to not only reform the USSR, but to keep it united. This resulted in a "New Union Treaty," which was to be signed on August 20, 1991. The goals of the treaty were to eventually reform the USSR into an equal federation of republics.
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  • With all the recent tensions caused over Russia's reemergence as a global and regional player, it's rather hard to imagine (especially for recent generations) what the world was once like before the collapse of communism in the late 1980s. Though it may come as a shock to learn that the end of communism didn't necessarily mean the end of the Soviet Union. Prior to its collapse in 1991, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev worked to not only reform the USSR, but to keep it united. This resulted in a "New Union Treaty," which was to be signed on August 20, 1991. The goals of the treaty were to eventually reform the USSR into an equal federation of republics. The treaty was never ratified, due solely to a coup d'état attempt beginning on August 19 (a day prior to the scheduled signing). Despite the failure of the August Coup, the chaos brought forth from which destroyed the remaining support for a continued union. On December 26, 1991, the Soviet Union ceased to exist, replaced by 15 new nations, and changing the world as we knew it. Now knowing more about the failed August Coup, it's rather silly to think how such a quickly orchestrated and unorganized plot not only failed in its goals but instead accelerated the dissolution of the USSR. Just think what the world might've been like had the coup simply never happened. What might the world be like under such a New Union?
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