Putin's Iron-Fisted Control Is Collapsing – The Lid

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) and its iron-fisted rule were created after the allied victory in WWII. The fall of Communism brought the end of the Cold War, leading the USSR’s union’s component states to declare their autonomy from their Moscow taskmasters.

Post-Cold War in 1991, the Russian population tasted freedom for the first time in almost seventy years. But that didn’t last long. Vladimir Putin became president in 2000.