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home / archives / politics / russia (and the former soviet union) / 19th December 1991

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Preparing for the worst!

Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke is on the verge of losing his leadership the next day to Paul Keating, who replaced him as Prime Minister.

Mikhail Gorbachev his counterpart in the disintegrating USSR is about to finish his tenure as leader as the Communist Party of USSR is dissolved.