who was the soviet premier when the soviet union collapsed in 1991 formally ending the cold war
Dissolution of the Soviet Union On January 14, 1991, Nikolai Ryzhkov resigned from his post as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or premier of the Soviet Union, and was succeeded by Valentin Pavlov in the newly established post of Prime Minister of the Soviet Union.
Soviet Union The Soviet Union suffered greatly in the war, losing around 27 million people.[45] Approximately 2.8 million Soviet POWs died of starvation, mistreatment, or executions in just eight months of 1941â€“42.[46] During the war, the Soviet Union together with the United States, the United Kingdom and China were considered as the Big Four of Allied powers in World War II [47] and later became the Four Policemen which was the foundation of the United Nations Security Council.[48] It emerged as a superpower in the post-war period. Once denied diplomatic recognition by the Western world, the Soviet Union had official relations with practically every nation by the late 1940s. A member of the United Nations at its foundation in 1945, the Soviet Union became one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, which gave it the right to veto any of its resolutions.