25 Years After End of the USSR, Europe Sees Opportunities Missed

Twenty-five years ago, the Soviet Union's formal dissolution marked communism's collapse in Europe and a new era of democracy, Western-style liberalism and economic growth across the region once divided by the so-called Iron Curtain.    The Soviet flag was lowered at the Kremlin for the last time on December 26, 1991, symbolizing the end of communist domination in a region that had two years earlier shaken off totalitarian governments that had been made in the image...

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