Nine Plus One Agreement Images

Ukrainian Independence Day (1991)
Placards carried in Kiev on Independence Day read: 'The end of the Soviet Empire was the beginning of the freedom of peoples.

Down with Gorbachev (1991)
This placard expresses the disdain commonly felt for Gorbachev after the dissolution of the Union. It reads 'Bring the best German to responsibility for the ruin of the Soviet Union.

We're For Eltsin (1991)
A demonstrator in the streets of Moscow carries a picture of the idol of the day.