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'Today prices keep on rising, is that what they call democracy?'

25 years after communist hardliners tried to oust Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, how do Russians now view the Soviet Union?

(Photo: Russian President Boris Yeltsin gesturing towards Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow, on August 23, 1991 Credit: Piko/AFP/Getty Images

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