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The USSR officially dissolved on December 26, 1991, following a period of political instability, economic struggles, and rising nationalist movements within its constituent republics. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent liberation of Eastern Europe further weakened Soviet influence. Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) inadvertently accelerated demands for independence among various republics. By the end of 1991, Russia and 14 other republics had declared independence, leading to the formal end of the Soviet Union.

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