What event symbolized the end of communism?

glasnost and perestroika

the fall of the Berlin Wall

the elimination of nuclear weapons

the separation of the Soviet Union

On December 25, 1991, the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. Earlier in the day, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state.