سؤال قراءة ستيب محلول — المفردات في السياق (تدريب 8113)

1) When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union (USSR) in 1985, no one predicted that the end of Cold War was only six years away. 2) It all began in Poland in June 1989. A non-communist party did well in the general election and people were celebrating in the streets. Everyone expected Gorbachev to send the army in, but he did nothing at all. European communist governments under the Soviet influence started to fall one by one. In autumn 1989, East Germans were knocking down the Berlin Wall. Then communist governments fell in Hungary, Czechoslovakia and in Romania the people put the president in prison. 3) Demands for freedom soon spread to the Soviet Union and Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania announced their freedom from Soviet control. In December 1991. Russia itself followed these three and declared independence. The USSR was finished. Gorbachev was a president without a country.