George H.W. Bush Era (4)

VOA Story American History continues today with the George H.W. Bush presidency. Tensions continued to ease in the early 1990s as communist rule ended in most of the former Soviet republics. At the time, the Soviet Union consisted of 15 republics. By the end of 1991, most of the former Soviet republics had declared independence. President George H.W. Bush recognized them all. The former Soviet republics formed the Commonwealth of Independent Sta…