Consider the Soviet Union.

The end of the Soviet Union left Russia significantly shrunken territorially (76 of the USSR), demographically (50 of the USSR s population), economically (45 of the USSR s output), and in terms of military personnel (33 of the USSR s armed forces).

After that, however, the Soviet growth rate and share of global output began a long decline.

This is from Soviet Union. Attractive.

And so, the United States kind of tells the Soviet Union,

The Soviet Union s collapse, it should be remembered, was not the result of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev s reformist betrayal.

They regard the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany as the highest achievement of the state and nation that they inherited from the USSR.

When those Mujahideen defeated the Soviet Union, we disengaged.

Reagan characterized the Soviet Union as an evil empire and increased defense spending to challenge Soviet aggression and capabilities.

After regaining its independence from the Soviet Union, only remnants of the industrial behemoths of the communist era remained.

The Soviet Union could not keep up.

As a former KGB official later testified, Exchanges were a Trojan horse for the Soviet Union.

December 16 Kazakhstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.

It was introduced by the Soviet Union in 1940.

Both Soviet and Allied troops were withdrawn in the same year.

And, when the USSR annexed the Baltic countries, Königsberg, parts of Poland, Finland, Moldova, and Japan, their citizens, too, became Soviet compatriots.

And, with America bogged down in Iraq, Russian President Vladimir Putin has resurrected Soviet style bullying tactics.

Although there's nothing like Soviet oppression, the alienation between state and society resembles that of Soviet days.

Indeed, he recently called the disintegration of the Soviet Union a tragic mistake.

Yet in 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed.

Soviet intervention became a real threat.

The White Sun existed in Soviet times.

In Putin s view, the Soviet Union collapsed under the weight of its debts.

Backers of a socialist model have gone the way of the Soviet Union.

The former Soviet Union and China suffered the most casualties.

The collapse of the Soviet Union and of communism were, in part, dramatic responses to US policies and to the inability of the Soviet economy to keep up with the West.

With the Soviet Union s collapse, a unique opportunity to end the nuclear competition emerged.

Back then, Egypt was closely aligned with the Soviet Union.

John F. Kennedy refused to tolerate the Soviet military presence in Cuba.

On February 25, Beneš, perhaps fearing Soviet intervention, capitulated.

There's another version there that sends retaliatory strikes at the Soviet Union.

The US Soviet rivalry of the Cold War era was special in that relations between those two countries shaped the fate of the world until the USSR imploded.

It detonated a hydrogen bomb in 1952, only one year after the US, and it was the first to launch a satellite into space, in 1957.

In this narrative, the Cold War was not so much won by the US and the West as lost by the Soviets, the inevitable result of Soviet economic weakness and political decay.

But at the same time we do not dream about any sort of 'pan Eurasian' unification on this post Soviet basis, and do not have any Soviet nostalgia.

Since the USSR s collapse, a new generation has come of age throughout the region.

It is clear that modern Russia lacks global status in the Soviet sense.

Next month will see the 15th anniversary of the Soviet Union s disintegration.

By December 1991, the Soviet Union ceased to exist.

Today, Russians listen to old Soviet songs and watch Soviet era movies.

The Soviet Union engaged the US in a race to the moon.

Separatist pressures emerged in Crimea immediately following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The same is true for Eastern Europe, the ex Soviet states, and Latin America.

Fears that the Soviet Union would cheat reinforced their position.

Obviously, the USSR is not about to be resurrected.