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The fall of Gorbachev and the rise of Yeltsin
Using archive and news footage, a commentator explains how Boris Yeltsin used the rising feelings of nationalism in the old republics to create a new body - the Commonwealth of International States - and sidestep Mikhail Gorbachev's vision of a Soviet Union that retained central powers.
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