Another animation from our Hi-story series is now available! This time we present you the story of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
How do empires fall? Economic crisis, falling education and healthcare standards, gerontocracy, alcohol abuse in the society.... Watch our latest animation and discover all the factors that led to the decline of the once mighty and powerful Soviet Union.
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This project would not be possible without the support of the German Federal Government Plenipotentiary for Culture and Media (BKM).
Hi-story lessons is a project undertaken by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity in cooperation with the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research (Germany), together with the following partner institutions: the Slovak Institute of National Remembrance; the European Association of History Educators EUROCLIO (the Netherlands); Post Bellum (Czech Republic); the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; the Mihálya Fazekasa Elementary and Junior High School (Hungary).