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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)

09-06-1991

A CRUCIAL TRANSITION FOR THE SOVIET UNION
Date: 09-06-1991, Friday
Section: OPINION
Edition: All Editions -- Four Star B, Three Star P, Two Star, One Star

THE OLD Soviet Union, the totalitarian monolith the world has known
and feared for more than 70 years, is no more.

The dramatic events of the last two weeks culminated Thursday in
Moscow in the creation of a loose confederation of repu...

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