November twenty fifth on d w. Once upon a time there was a country the largest in the world in fact it was an empire it was called the soviet union shortly before it seventieth birthday it vanished from the map. It was. Just a shift in the state political issue geopolitical state to the still figure. We are everywhere all over the world a star shines goes an old pioneer socialist Youth Organization song by the end of the one nine hundred ninety s. That star was no longer shining almost a decade after the collapse of the soviet empire the old republics of the u. S. S. R. Had gone their separate ways. The Baltic States of estonia latvia and lithuania and decisively turned their backs on moscow and were on their way to becoming members of the e. U. And nato. The other successor states are often referred to by moscow as the near abroad and reflecting an ardent desire for them to somehow still belong to russia but many of them were also now looking to the west. In most of the newly independ
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