CNN CNN Special Report November 29, 2021 05:46:00
>> when the soviet union was teetering on the edge of collapse -- >> gorbachev has destroyed the whole country. >> -- many of its republics demanded independence. >> the delicate fabric holding together the variety of ethnic republics in the soviet union is unraveling. >> one by one those republics each dominated by a different ethnic group, declared themselves free. >> the parade out of what is left. >> the seventh. >> eighth. >> the ninth republic to officially declare. >> the 12th republic to declare independence. >> the lesson xi took from that? allowing cultural separatism could trigger c...
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