<Table> <Tr> <Td>> 5,000 DM 2,500--5,000 DM 1,000--2,500 DM </Td> <Td> 500--1,000 DM 250--500 DM <250 DM </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td>> 5,000 DM 2,500--5,000 DM 1,000--2,500 DM </Td> <Td> 500--1,000 DM 250--500 DM <250 DM </Td> </Tr> <P> Its leading role in the Second World War saw the emergence of the Soviet Union as a superpower, with strong influence over Eastern Europe and parts of Asia . The European and Japanese empires were shattered and communist parties played a leading role in many independence movements . Marxist--Leninist governments modeled on the Soviet Union took power with Soviet assistance in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland, Hungary and Romania . A Marxist--Leninist government was also created under Marshal Tito in Yugoslavia, but Tito's independent policies led to the expulsion of Yugoslavia from the Cominform which had replaced the Comintern and Titoism was branded "deviationist". Albania also became an independent Marxist--Leninist state after World War II . Communism was seen as a rival of and a threat to western capitalism for most of the 20th century . </P> <P> The Soviet Union was dissolved on December 26, 1991 . It was a result of the declaration number 142 - Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union . The declaration acknowledged the independence of the former Soviet republics and created the Commonwealth of Independent States, although five of the signatories ratified it much later or did not do it at all . On the previous day, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union) resigned, declared his office extinct and handed over its powers--including control of the Soviet nuclear missile launching codes--to Russian President Boris Yeltsin . That evening at 7: 32, the Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin for the last time and replaced with the pre-revolutionary Russian flag . </P>

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