Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union.
Putin has long viewed nostalgia as a powerful means of reassuring — and subduing — the public. Putin revived the Soviet anthem and restored the Red Army flag as the official banner of the military.
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