When Mikhail Gorbachev announced the end of the Soviet Union to his people on December 25, 30 years ago, he didn’t even get his usual cup of tea in the end. Morally humiliated, worn out in defensive battles against the leaders of renegade republics and defeated by his great rival Boris Yeltsin, the reformer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate had the red flag with hammer and sickle raised over the Kremlin.
300 people gathered in Red Square to protest against the dissolution of the USSR – with 287 million inhabitants of the Soviet Union. So the grave diggers of the USSR were not in Washington, Brussels or Berlin. It was above all Russia, led by Yeltsin, that broke up the Union.
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