On February 25th, Gorbachev announced his resignation as president of the Soviet Union. 1991On February 26th, the House of the Republic of supreme soviet of the ussr held its last meeting, announcing that the Soviet Union ceased to exist and officially disintegrated, and the Russian Federation became the sole successor of the Soviet Union. The property, deposits, diplomatic institutions, embassies and consulates of the former Soviet Union overseas were all taken over by Russia.

The Soviet Union split into 15 countries: Lithuania, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Estonia, Tajikistan, Latvia, Armenia, Ukraine, Turkmenistan, Belarus, Russian Federation, Moldova and Kazakhstan.

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The view of peaceful evolution holds that while containing communist countries with the backing of force, we should strengthen the means in the political, economic, cultural and ideological fields, comprehensively introduce values such as freedom, democracy and human rights, support the democratic forces of communist countries, promote the overthrow of authoritarian regimes, accelerate the process of global liberalization, and achieve the specific goals of countries headed by the United States.

However, it should be said that the peaceful evolution strategy has contributed to the drastic changes in the Soviet Union, but only when the Soviet Union has political and social crisis and turmoil can external factors play a certain role.