Good intentions – Gorbachev's to reform and preserve the USSR, and Bush's to avoid fragmentation and likewise to preserve it – failed miserably. In 1991, the USSR collapsed definitively, the fatality consisting in the detachment from it of the second group of nations included in the so-called unional republics, organically glued on the inside to its skeleton, Russia, after the first one broke from the USSR in 1989 group. Coming out somehow from under the ruins of the USSR, the 15 republics - some downright shocked and confused by what happened, others even angry at the state of forced independence in which they found themselves - began to move each in its own orbits, but, according to the centrifugal inertia caused by the deflagration, all necessarily in the direction away from Russia.