Essay | The Former USSR Today

The former USSR has had a rough road through the past four-teen years. The collapse of the Soviet Union was devastating to all of the countries that were part of it. Economies crashed, government systems crumbled, and socially there was chaos. Many of the countries have yet to rebuild their economies since, such as Russia. Today virtually all of the former USSR is on a road of democracy. Socially they are diverse and there are some hot beds for social disorder.

Russia is the largest country geographically and population wise that emerged from the fifteen Commonwealth of Independent States due to the fall of the Soviet Union. Russia along with many other states experienced massive inflation. Unemployment rates in Russia have slowly decreasing since the Soviet fall. Unemployment in Russia and else were in the Commonwealth of Independent States has...
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