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#video#USSR Thirty years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev announced his resignation as Soviet president on state TV. The Soviet flag was lowered for the last time at the Kremlin, and the USSR was no more. In the 1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev launched his flagship policies of Perestroika and Glasnost to transform the country and pull it out of stagnation. Instead, it only worsened the shortages and unleashed a wave of criticism. Gorbachev is widely revered in the West but is often criticised at home for ending the Soviet Union. You can learn more about the dramatic events that unfolded in 1991 before Gorbachev’s resignation speech in our documentary here. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary