6 Things Nobody Thought Would Ever Happen… But They Did

The Soviet Union Collapsed

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the Soviet Union was one of the two global superpowers. It had nuclear weapons, a massive military, and seemed like it would last for generations. Even Western intelligence agencies believed the USSR would survive for decades. In 1991, it simply… stopped existing. The entire country dissolved into 15 independent nations. The Cold War was over, and nobody saw it coming. Even the CIA had predicted the USSR would continue well into the 21st century.