At the start of the 1990s the Soviet Union - one the largest empires in the world - imploded.It was not a slow collapse like the British Empire, but one that collapsed suddenly - in just a few months.In the west we didn't really see or understand what then happened because we were blinded by victory in the cold war. In reality what the Russian people experienced was a profound disaster which left behind it deep scars and a furious anger - that led to what is happening in Russia now and in Ukrai…
At the start of the 1990s the Soviet Union - one the largest empires in the world - imploded.It was not a slow collapse like the British Empire, but one that collapsed suddenly - in just a few months.In the west we didn't really see or understand what then happened because we were blinded by victory in the cold war. In reality what the Russian people experienced was a profound disaster which left behind it deep scars and a furious anger - that led to what is happening in Russia now and in Ukrai…