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or decades the USSR -- the Soviet UInion -- was a major world power, but it was held together largely through force and intimidation.
Things began to unravel in the late 1980s -- the momentum built after President Ronald Reagan delivered these words at the Berlin Wall:
The wall did come down two years later, and two years after that, the Soviet Union came to an end.
Watching it all, from a front-row seat, was high-profilpe Soviet journalist and broadcaster Vladimir Pozner, who was also a freqeuent guest on American television, largely because in his youth, he spent a lot of time in tghe U.S. abd vecame fluent in English.
By Bill Thompson5
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or decades the USSR -- the Soviet UInion -- was a major world power, but it was held together largely through force and intimidation.
Things began to unravel in the late 1980s -- the momentum built after President Ronald Reagan delivered these words at the Berlin Wall:
The wall did come down two years later, and two years after that, the Soviet Union came to an end.
Watching it all, from a front-row seat, was high-profilpe Soviet journalist and broadcaster Vladimir Pozner, who was also a freqeuent guest on American television, largely because in his youth, he spent a lot of time in tghe U.S. abd vecame fluent in English.

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