Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned, ending the USSR. The AP Moscow photo chief, Liu Heung Shing, was the only foreign photographer who captured the moment.
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Matthias Rust’s Daring Flight
Throughout the most of the Cold War, the Soviet Union was deemed to have been […]
Stalin Is Dead
On March 1st, 1953, the morning after an all-night dinner in his country estate outside […]
Henry Cabot Lodge’s UN Trick
Colin Powell famously used a vial of “anthrax” while trying in vain to win Security […]
Yeltsin on a tank
Diane-Lu Hovasse/AFP/Getty Images Itar / Tass / Reuters On August 19, 1991, the hardliners of […]