On December 17, 1991, Yeltsin declared that, “There will be no more red flag.
On December 17, 1991, after a long meeting between President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev and President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin, Yeltsin declared that, “There will be no more red flag.” Accordingly, The Soviet Union will officially cease to exist on or before New Year’s Eve.
At that time, for many people the Soviet Union had long since disintegrated. It was all a rather unexciting end to the nation President Ronald Reagan once called “the evil empire.”
