What destroyed the Soviet Union?

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The Soviet Union, the bastion of Marxist Leninist thinking, fell on the 26th of December 1991.

Fukuyama wrote a book calling the period that follows this the "End of History.""

In many ways, they were right. It signalled the end of an era for the world and political thinking, but the consequences we are only now just beginning to feel in the West.