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people shed anytears.Instead of freedom,Soviet rule had producedone of the most brutal dic-tatorships in history.In-stead of happiness,Sovietrule had spread hardshipand death.Instead of peace,Soviet rule had built up thelargest military forces inhistory and threatened the  \n# CURRENT EVENTS\n\nTwo young women wave minature Russian flags to celebrate the end of the Soviet Union.             \n# THE SOVIET UNION:1922-1991\n\nlection of 15 independentcountries.Eleven of thesecountries have formed aloose confederation ofnations officially called theCommonwealth of Inde-pendent States (CIS).(Seemap on page 3.)The mostimportant of these inde-pendent states is Russia,with more than 150 millionpeople and more than 75percent of the land formerlyoccupied by the Soviet Un-ion.Russia also took overthe Soviet Union's seat atthe United Nations and for-mer Soviet embassies andgovemment buildings aroundthe world.  \nworld with nuclear war.  \nThe end to all of thiscame on Christmas Day,atprecisely 7:32 p.m.Moscowtime when soldiers pulleddown the red hammer-and-sickle flag-the symbolthat so terrorized the worldfor so long—from atop theKremlin,the seat of Sovietpower.In its place theyraised the white,blue,andred flag of old Russia.  \nThe Soviet Union isdead-part of history.Ithas been replaced by a col-  \n## A Failed Dream\n\nThe collapse of the Sovi-et Union was closely tiedwith the collapse of Com-munism—the socia and ec-onomic system upon whichthe Soviet Union was based.Modern Communism wasborn in the writings of KarlMarx (1818-83),a Germanthinker.Marx lived in anage of dirty,smoke-filledfactories,child labor,six-day workweeks,and wide-spread poverty.  \nThe injustice of theseconditions outraged MarxHe believed that they couldonly get worse,that the rich  \n(continued on page 2)  \nSOVIET UNION  \nCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1  \nwould get richer and thepoor wouid get poorer.Fi-nally,Marx believed,con-ditions would get so badthat the workers would risein revolt and establish acommunist society—one inwhich everyone wouldshare the wealth equallyMarx's ideas attractedmany followers.They calledthemselves Marxists,orCommunists.  \nCommunism spread beyondthe borders of the SovietUnion.Many of the coun-tries of Eastern Europe be-came part of a Communistempire ruled from Moscow.The Soviet Union emergedas a world superpower witha huge army,navy,and airforce and a mission-tospread Communismthroughout the world.  \n## The Cold War\n\nThe shape of the worldfrom 1945 to the late 1980swas shaped by a strugglebetween capitalist nations,led by the U.S.,and Com-munist nations,led by theSoviet Union.This strugglefor the hearts and minds ofthe world is known as TheCold War.  \n## Vladimir Lenin\n\nThe leader of the Rus-sian Communists was Vla-dimir Lenin(1970-1924).In1917,after the RussianRevolution,Lenin and hisfollowers established theworld's first Communistgovernment.Lenin prom-ised the Russian people anew era of freedom andprosperity.He also prom-ised the other peoples ofthe old Russian empirefreedom to practice theirown cultural traditions.  \nThe Cold War was a timeof high tension and militarybuildup.Both the U.S.andthe Soviet Union built upvast stockpiles of nuclearweapons and more thanonce the world was broughtclose to nuclear war.  \nThe new nation Leninfounded in 1922 was calledthe Soviet Union-a unionof republics (similar to U.S.states)bound together byCommunist ideals.  \nAt the height of the ColdWar Soviet leader NikitaKhruschev told the U.S.,\"We will bury you,\"mean-ing that Communism woulddestroy capitalism.  \nWhat Lenin and his suc-cessors actually estab-lished was not a democracy,but a Communist dictator-ship.No other political par-ties were allowed.Therewas no freedom of the pressor of religion.  \nWomen stand in a bread line in Moscow.Food is scarceand tempers are short.  \nUnder Joseph Stalin(1879-1953),th","cbCaikajmdcmSZjz","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikajmdcmSZjz","pdf",2997869,"English","# CURRENT EVENTS\n# THE SOVIET UNION: 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