Christmas Day 1991 Christmas 1991 YouTube

• former irish times moscow correspondent conor o'clery talks about the last days of the soviet union and.

• after years of food shortages, rising nationalist movements and an attempted coup, mikhail gorbachev, the president of the soviet union, resigned on christmas day 1991.

• every republic in the union had growing nationalism until christmas of 1991 when mikhail gorbachev, the general secretary.

• The spectre of discord was growing between two key republics of the former soviet union yesterday as if in answer.

• on christmas day 1991, soviet leader mikhail gorbachev sat down at a table deep inside the kremlin and.