Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, conflict escalated into a full-scale war between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

The Internal Troops were formed from the former Soviet Internal Troops after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The economy declined dramatically during the 1990s with the collapse of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( COMECON ) system and the loss of the Soviet market, to which the country had been closely tied.

The economy declined dramatically during the 1990s with the collapse of the Comecon system and the loss of the Soviet market, to which the country had been closely tied.

Some believe that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, cultures of smallpox have become available in other countries.

Starting from the mid-1980s and the collapse of Soviet Union, Cuba experienced a crisis referred to as the " Special Period ".

The economy grew intermittently under Castro until the collapse of the Soviet Union, which provided Cuba with $ 4 billion to $ 6 billion in subsidies annually.

Cuba's once-ambitious foreign policy has been down sized as a result of economic hardship after the collapse of the Soviet bloc.

It had not succeeded in converting the British public to unilateralism and even after the collapse of the Soviet Union British nuclear weapons still have majority support.

Also, the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 added motive force to Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika reforms, which eventually spiraled out of control and caused the Soviet system to collapse.

A major factor in the Soviet Union's collapse was when Gorbachev realized that the Soviet Union as it was could not compete economically with the United States.

Why didn't the Soviet Union collapse in 1980 then?

* Predictions of Soviet collapse

Economic malaise in the 1980s, along with resentment of Soviet oppression, contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the associated end of the Cold War, and the democratization and liberalization of the former Eastern bloc countries.

The collapse of the Soviet Union and the growing Islamist trend in Palestinian society during the 1990s sapped the party of much of its popularity and resources.

The collapse of the Soviet Union led to the restoration of Republic of Estonia's independence.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Finland freed itself from the last restrictions imposed on it by the Paris peace treaties of 1947.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the writings of Hayek were also a major influence on many of the leaders of the " velvet " revolution in Central Europe during the collapse of the old Soviet Empire.

His books were translated and published by the underground and black market editions, read widely, and undoubtedly influenced the climate of opinion that ultimately brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union .</ p >

They were totally loyal to Stalin, and realized their regime would collapse if it lost the backing of the Soviet army — as indeed happened in 1989.

* 1985: Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of Soviet Union and begins reforms which inadvertently lead to the collapse of Communism and USSR.

The ostensible reason was a report by XI Corps commander Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard that Doubleday's corps broke first, causing the entire Union line to collapse, but Meade also had a long history of disdain for Doubleday's combat effectiveness, dating back to South Mountain.

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia embarked on a series of reforms intending to deliver better health care by compulsory medical insurance with privately owned providers in addition to the state run institutions.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc countries suffered a significant loss in both markets for goods, and subsidizing from the Soviet Union.

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, political movements based on the liberal ideology of free expression and democratic rule have led the opposition in other parts of the world such as Latin America, Eastern Europe and many parts of Asia ; however " the simple fact is that political Islam currently reigns as the most powerful ideological force across the Muslim world today ".

The collapse of the Soviet Union itself in 1991, was seen by many Islamists, including Bin Laden, as the defeat of a superpower at the hands of Islam, the $ 6 billion in aid given by the US to the mujahideen having nothing to do with the victory.

As bin Laden opined: " he US has no mentionable role " in " the collapse of the Soviet Union ... rather the credit goes to God and the mujahidin " of Afghanistan.

After the collapse of the short-lived Third Reich, and the failure of its attempt to create a great land empire in Eurasia, Germany was split between Western and Soviet spheres of influence until Perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States did not diminish its global ability to project force, remaining " the sole superpower " and what has been called a " unipolar " situation of domination by it globally came into force.

With the collapse of Communism in 1989, reunion on West Germany's terms followed.

After 1989, the collapse of the Soviet Union gave way to the surge of religious freedoms and people's hunger for spiritual and hopeful message.

However the collapse of the Communist regime in 1989, reforms in the 2000s ( decade ) and its recent entry to the European Union have led to an improved economic outlook.

In 1989, before the collapse of the government, the national airline had only one airplane.

There were 94, 900 Jews in Uzbekistan in 1989 ( about 0. 5 % of the population according to the 1989 census ), but now, since the collapse of the USSR, most Central Asian Jews left the region for the United States or Israel.

The CPV's claim to legitimacy was retained following the collapse of communism in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 by its commitment to the thoughts of Hồ Chí Minh, according to Sophie Quinn-Judge.

Beginning at the Cold War ’ s conclusion, in late 1989, popular civil and political public discontent forced the Communist governments of the Warsaw Treaty countries from power – independent national politics made feasible with the perestroika-and glasnost-induced institutional collapse of Communist government in the USSR.

Plac Dzierżyńskiego ) in the center of Warsaw was toppled in 1989 as the Polish United Workers ' Party lost power as part of the collapse of communism.

The 1989 parody, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, is presented as a first-person narrative by the wolf, who portrays the entire incident as a misunderstanding ; he had gone to the pigs to borrow some sugar, had destroyed their houses in a sneezing fit, ate the first two pigs to not waste food ( since they'd died in the house collapse anyway ), and was caught attacking the third pig's house after the pig had continually insulted him.

On January 7, 1990, after over two decades of stabilisation studies, and spurred by the abrupt collapse of the Civic Tower of Pavia in 1989, the tower was closed to the public.

On October 13, 1989, the Dow stumbled into another downfall, the 1989 Mini-Crash which initiated the collapse of the junk bond market as the Dow registered a loss of almost 7 %.

These obstacles may have left Russia on a far worse footing than other former Communist-led states to Russia's west that were also going through dual economic and political transitions, such as Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, which have fared better since the collapse of the Eastern bloc between 1989 and 1991.

The true rebirth, following the collapse of the Soviet empire, was experienced by the Ludowy Theatre in Nowa Huta district of Kraków taken over by an actor, director, and politician Jerzy Fedorowicz ( 1989 – 2005 ).

After the collapse of the East German government in 1989, Kohl – supported by the governments of France, the United Kingdom, and the United States – called for German reunification.

This led to the gradual collapse of the system in the autumn of 1989.

West Germany interpreted a 21 November 1989 diplomatic message on the topic, however, as meaning that only two weeks after the Wall's collapse the Soviet leadership already anticipated reunification.

Nearing the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast boasted a population of 145, 593 Armenians ( 76. 4 %), 42, 871 Azerbaijanis ( 22. 4 %), and several thousand Kurds, Russians, Greeks, and Assyrians.

At the end of 1989, two years before the final collapse of the Soviet Union, the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union and Mikhail Gorbachev's government formally denounced the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, acknowledging that the bloody annexation of the Baltic States and the partition of Poland had been illegal.

Through the collapse of the USSR and the unification of Germany, the United States invasion of Panama in December 1989, and Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, the NSC worked effectively in facilitating a series of American foreign policy successes.

Following the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989 and the collapse of Najibullah's Soviet-backed regime in 1992, the country fell into chaos as various mujahideen factions fought for control.

A well-known example of the adverse effect of a GIC event is the collapse of the Hydro-Québec power network on March 13, 1989.