The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Soviet_of_the_Soviet_Union" id="mwASA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union">Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union</a> meets and formally <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union" id="mwASE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Dissolution of the Soviet Union">dissolves the Soviet Union</a>, ending the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War" id="mwASI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>.<sup about="#mwt139" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-26"}}' id="cite_ref-26" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_26#cite_note-26" id="mwASM" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 26;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwASQ">[26]</span></a></sup>
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