How did one of the world’s most powerful superpowers suddenly collapse? In the final episode of our Soviet Union series, we uncover the dramatic events that led to the fall of the USSR and forever changed global history.

From Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms of Perestroika and Glasnost to the failed 1991 coup, the fall of the Berlin Wall, rising nationalist movements, economic crisis, and the official dissolution of the Soviet Union, this episode explains why the communist superpower came to an unexpected end. Discover how the collapse of the Soviet Union reshaped Russia, the United States, Europe, and the modern world, marking the end of the Cold War and the beginning of a new global era.

Whether you’re passionate about history, politics, the Cold War, communism, world affairs, or documentary storytelling, this episode offers a clear, eng ...