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Associated Press
The Soviet death blow was struck in a hunting lodge 30 years ago
With their pen strokes, they hit the Soviet Union with death and caused a shock wave that was still echoing thirty years later in tensions between Russia and Ukraine. The agreement they signed was signed at Viscri’s Dacha in the Bella Beza Forest near the Polish border, proclaiming that “the Soviet Union will no longer exist as an object of international law and as a geopolitical reality.” Two weeks later, eight other Soviet republics joined the alliance, effectively terminating the authority of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who resigned on December 25, 1991, and lowered the hammer and mallet flags over the Kremlin.
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