Dissolution of the Soviet Union
“The Kremlin's Senate Palace, December 25, 1991. The red Soviet flag is lowered from the dome for the final time. Foreground shows two soldiers in gray winter coats folding the hammer-and-sickle banner; midground reveals the new Russian tricolor being raised on the same pole; Red Square's empty cobblestones and St. Basil's domes glow under a freezing Moscow dusk.”
