Armenian woman with her belongings sitting by the roadside in Azerbaijan, May 1,1991.
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Celebrating Independence Day in the streets of Tallinn, Estonia on February 24, 1990.
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Statue of a peace dove at a bus stop in Kyrgyzstan, May 1, 1992.
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An anti-communist demonstration in Ukraine, October 4,1991.
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Horsecart on the Jurmala motorway towards Tallinn, Estonia, May 1, 1992.
Image from the book "Soviets: Pictures from the End of the U.S.S.R." by Shepard Sherbell
Kazakhstan after the attempted coup by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union against Gorbachev in August 1991.
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People driving their cattle through the town of Tskhinvali. The South Ossetia region declared itself a breakaway republic, but Georgia revoked the region's autonomy in December 1990, just a few months before the country declared independence from the USSR and the civil war broke out.
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Border guards of the former USSR in Turkmenistan, November 1 1991.
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