How the Soviet Union Split Into 15 Countries - The Insight Report By Gautam Kapil
Every year on August 24, Ukraine marks its Independence Day — a date that only exists because, three decades ago, a nation many assumed was permanent simply stopped existing. The Soviet Union, at its height, stretched across 15 republics and eleven time zones. By the end of 1991, it was gone, replaced by 15 separate countries drawing their own borders, printing their own currencies, and writing their own futures.
That collapse wasn't sudden. It was the product of seven decades of decisions — revolutions, wars, arms races, and reforms — each one narrowing the road until there was nowhere left…
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