Question

What happened after the communist Soviet Union collapsed and was replaced by the democratic Russian Federation?

A. The leaders of former communist nations in Eastern Europe were arrested and imprisoned for life.

B. The Cold War came to an end, and peace with the United States was achieved.

C. The United States and the Russian Federation started to compete to obtain former Soviet countries .

D. Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the new democratic government .

Answer 1

The Soviet Union dissolved in 1991 and was replaced by a much smaller Russian Federation. The former Soviet Socialist Republics became independent nations. The Russian Federation became the Soviet Union's successor state, while all of the other republics emerged from the USSR's collapse as fully independent post-Soviet states.

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