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Content: However, Bush and Gorba- chev quickly developed a rapport and continued efforts to improve relations and sign arms reduction treaties. When the USSR began to crumble, Bush turned his attention to Boris Yeltsin, the charismatic opposition politician who would lead Russia to independence. When revolutions broke out in the communist countries of Eastern Europe in 1989, Gorbachev chose not to intervene with military force. The regimes soon crumbled, and the former Soviet satellites held democratic elections that brought new leaders to power. Although Gorbachev opposed  NATO member- ship for a unified Germany, the USSR did not interfere when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and West Germany absorbed the formerly communist East Germany. Traditional Ukrainian Easter Eggs CLASSROOM COUNTRY PROFILES
More resources for educators are available on the Henry M. Jackson Studies website. What led to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991? Was its demise preventable? If so, what could Gorbachev have done? Was the dissolution of the Soviet Union a good or a bad thing?