THE COLD WAR The USSR/Russia 1945-2004

Explosion of the first soviet A-bomb

DEATH of STALIN
FIRST SOVIET H-BOMB

THE SECRET SPEECH

FIRST Soviet ICBM,
SPUTNIK

FIRST MANNED SPACE FLIGHT

KRUSHCHEV replaced by BREZHNEV

PRAGUE SPRING crushed

DEATH of BREZHNEV
Replaced by ANDROPOV

DEATH OF ANDROPOV
Replaced by CHERNENKO

DEATH of CHERNENKO
Replaced by GORBACHEV

CHERNOBYL DISASTER

War between AZERBAIJAN and ARMENIA
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INDEPENDENCE OF BALTIC STATES
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YELTSIN elected as LEADER OF RUSSIA

BLOODY SUNDAY IN LITHUANIA
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COUP D'ETAT in Moscow
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COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION

ELECTION of VLADIMIR PUTIN

COMINTERN SET UP