The Revolutions of 1989 continue: President Mikhail Gorbachev, of the Soviet Union, renounces the use of force against those Soviet-bloc nations that are abandoning communism.
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References:
Revolutions of 1989 – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1989
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