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Dissolution of the Soviet Union - Union-wide referendum

Time: Sunday Mar 17, 1991

Place: Russia

Details: On March 17, 1991, in a Union-wide referendum 76.4 percent of voters endorsed retention of a reformed Soviet Union.

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