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East-Europe’s economic triumphs and territorial worries over Ukraine

East-Europe’s economic triumphs and territorial worries over Ukraine

The implosion of the Soviet Union after December 1991 brought freedom to almost 20 restored or new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe. Europeans were reunited, independent and free after almost half a century of oppression under an earlier version of Homo Sovieticus. Russian leaders Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin supported national self-determination and democracy. […]

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