When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, each of the former Soviet Union's Franchise **** and States became independent:

Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. ***15 countries.

Until December 22, 1991, 11 former Soviet Union member **** and states were part of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS): Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan (which announced its withdrawal on August 26, 2005, at the Kazan Conference), Uzbekistan and Ukraine.

Georgia, on the other hand, joined in December 1993 and in August 2008 announced its withdrawal. The three Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have consistently refused to join the CIS.

The Soviet Union spanned most of Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and North Asia; land borders with Norway, Finland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, China, Mongolia, and North Korea; and sea borders with Sweden, Japan, and the U.S. states of Alaska and Canada.

The Soviet Union was a federal state, consisting of 15 Soviet Socialist **** and States of equal rights under the principle of voluntary association, and pursued a socialist system and a planned economic policy, and was ruled by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ****? [2]? After the Second World War, the Soviet Union became the world's superpower alongside the United States, the world entered into a bipolar pattern, the Soviet Union advocated to compete with the United States for world hegemony by vigorously developing its military power, after which the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States officially kicked off in March 1946?

On December 25, 1991, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev announced his resignation, the Soviet Union's Supreme Soviet passed a resolution the following day declaring that the Soviet Union ceased to exist, the Russian Federation led by Boris Yeltsin inherited the Soviet Union's major comprehensive national power and international status, the Soviet Union disintegrated, the Soviet*** was dissolved, and the international ****anitarian movement suffered a major setback.

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