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Although the Soviet Union collapsed three decades ... as "trying to overcome them through blood, pain and tears." Russian officers with Soviet and Russian flags during the Victory Day Parade ...

maybe across the Soviet Union, or it might have consolidated some things,” he said. “Had he decided to go down that route...there would have been blood on his hands. He would have had to turn ...

The trio were frequently grouped together as godheads of the Soviet political system. In the opening weeks of the invasion, a handful of Soviet flags flown ... the Soviet Union," he said.