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  • Kavita Krishnan quits all posts in CPI(M-L) after calling Soviet regime, China autocratic

    Kavita Krishnan quits all posts in CPI(M-L) after calling Soviet regime, China autocratic

    Scroll Staff
    · Sep 02, 2022 · 10:50 am
  • Mikhail Gorbachev, last Soviet Union president,  dies at 91

    Mikhail Gorbachev, last Soviet Union president, dies at 91

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    · Aug 31, 2022 · 09:09 am
  • Watch: Hilarious video of Soviet soldiers supposedly dancing to Nirvana's ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’

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    · Jan 23, 2021 · 01:14 pm
  • USSR collapse: 25 years after the political spring of 1991, Russia is facing a long and dark winter

    USSR collapse: 25 years after the political spring of 1991, Russia is facing a long and dark winter

    Mohan Guruswamy
    · Dec 25, 2016 · 06:30 pm
  • Comrade Modi has not learnt much from 1991 – when Licence Raj ended (as did the Soviet Union)

    Comrade Modi has not learnt much from 1991 – when Licence Raj ended (as did the Soviet Union)

    Devangshu Datta
    · Nov 24, 2016 · 08:00 am