The 70th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade was a Soviet Ground Forces mechanized infantry brigade of the Soviet–Afghan War. During the war, it was based in Kandahar.
Brigade battle flag
The Soviet Union was formally dissolved and ceased to exist as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991. It also brought an end to the Soviet Union's federal government a
Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987
Anti-Soviet rally of about 250,000 in Lithuania, whose Sąjūdis movement helped restore independence (August 1988)
Environmental concerns over the Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant drove initial demonstrations in Yerevan.
Andrei Sakharov, formerly exiled to Gorky, was elected to the Congress of People's Deputies in March 1989.