How did George Bush and the U. S support the new independent states that broke from the Soviet Union

On December 25, 1991, the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. Earlier in the day, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state

answer; exaggerate what you believe is the deception and state it, hoping that the other will jump in to "correct" the statement;