Question 8 of 20 2 Points
Read this passage from a speech given by President Ronald Reagan in 1987:
And now the Soviets themselves may, in a limited way, be
coming to understand the importance of freedom. We hear
much from Moscow about a new policy of reform and
openness. Some political prisoners have been released.
Certain foreign news broadcasts are no longer being
jammed. Some economic enterprises have been permitted
to operate with greater freedom from state control.
Are these the beginnings of profound changes in the
Soviet state? Or are they token gestures, intended to raise
false hopes in the West, or to strengthen the Soviet system
without changing it? We welcome change and openness;
for we believe that freedom and security go together, that
the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the
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the western roman empire flourished, but the eastern portion of the empire struggled.

the dissolution of the soviet union[a] occurred on december 26, 1991, officially granting self-governing independence to the republics of the soviet union. it was a result of the declaration number 142-н of the supreme soviet of the soviet union.[1] the declaration acknowledged the independence of the former soviet republics and created the commonwealth of independent states (cis), although five of the signatories ratified it much later or did not do so at all. on the previous day, december 25, soviet president mikhail gorbachev, the eighth and final leader of the soviet union, resigned, declared his office extinct, and handed over its powers – including control of the soviet nuclear missile launching codes – to russian president boris yeltsin. that evening at 7: 32 p.m., the soviet flag was lowered from the kremlin for the last time and replaced with the pre-revolutionary russian flag.[2]

previously, from august to december, all the individual republics, including russia itself, had either seceded from the union or at the very least denounced the treaty on the creation of the ussr. the week before formal dissolution, 11 republics signed the alma-ata protocol formally establishing the cis and declaring that the ussr had ceased to exist.[3][4] both the revolutions of 1989 and the dissolution of the ussr also marked the end of the cold war.

several of the former soviet republics have retained close links with the russian federation and formed multilateral organizations such as the commonwealth of independent states, eurasian economic community, the union state, the eurasian customs union, and the eurasian economic union to enhance economic and security cooperation. on the other hand, the baltic states have joined nato and th

once he became head of state in 1915, venustiano (his name was not victoriano) carranza was able to implement some of his ideas, such as the drafting and the promulgation of the mexican constitution of 1917, which is still the current constitution of that country.