December 1991, on Christmas day the Soviet Union separated into 15 distinct countries, many might have considered its fall as victory for freedom, triumph of democracy over totalitarianism and evidence of the superiority of capitalism over socialism, but overall it ended the Cold War. In addition to all the advantages the decline of Soviet Union had brought, it transformed dramatically the world; politically, economically and socially.
Although the fall of the Soviet Union has had contradictions on its main cause, it is contemplated that the government underestimated the non-Russian ethic groups in the country, which were over fifty percent of the total population. This procedure began with the Baltic areas, such as Estonia, Armenia, the Republic of Azerbaijan, etc., in order to contradict to the leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s policy of freedom of speech. A great amount of the population used such policy to unleash their emotions and political feelings, and made use by criticizing Gorbachev for his failure to improve economy. Eventually, after three days of massive protest, known as the “August days”, the population demonstrated that nothing less than democracy would be accepted, separating once and for all the Soviet Union.