On 15 October 1990, Mikhail Gorbachev was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Also in 1990, the Russian Federation was the first Soviet Republic to declare sovereignty from the USSR.
I honestly do not mind Gorbi pulling the chair under communism. Also I do not mind Russia emancipating itself from the Soviet yoke, although that process is not yet finished, it was started in late 1988 in fact, with Gorbi’s New Political Thinking speech.
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