The Soviet Union ceased to exist as a nation 30 years ago today. On December 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union. The Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowere… ...

You pull the Soviet Union right from under him. And I think the end of the Soviet Union, the technical end of it, was in large part because then Gorbachev had no job,” said Scowcroft.

ALEXANDER HAIG, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE: Well, I think there is no question that Ronald Reagan's policies brought an end to the Soviet Union, but history did the same. Because the internal ...

On June 22, 1941 – 50 years ago this Saturday – Hitler’s “Operation Barbarossa” began: 3 million German troops invaded the Soviet Union. The “Great Patriotic War,” as Communists like ...

Expats from Soviet Union honor and criticize the end of Mikhail Gorbachev’s era Gorbachev's death is prompting criticism, thanks and admiration from Russian-speaking Angelenos and prominent voices ...

Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Soviet leader who knocked down the walls between East and West, dies at 91.

Not many leaders made such a mark on a country as the late Gorbachev. Admirers and critics say he ended the Cold War, dissolved the Soviet Union and let millions immigrate to the West.