In an attempt to save their economy, Soviet officials did whatever it took to pick up the slack so that their people won't starve and it worked (temporarily).
The Soviet Empire's Economy Was In Shambles
Instead, most of the neighboring countries that the Soviet Union had control over were desperate to leave communism and the USSR behind to live independently and form their traditions and heritage, and under Gorbachev, they had the opportunity to do exactly that which laid the foundation of the fall of communist Russia. If the USSR gave their sister countries the freedom to keep their identities and heritage peace might have been an option through times of crisis. When different cultures collide, it usually ends in one of two ways: either they learn and trade from each other or constant turmoil sets and becomes the norm. As history shows, the official dissolution of the USSR on the 26th of December 1991 marks the end of the cold war, but how did the Russian superpower fall from such heights? What reasons led to the weakening and eventual dissolution of the Soviet communist empire? From the start of this 45 year-long struggle for power, only one resolution was possible: one of the two giants had to fall so the other may prevail. The cold war was a direct consequence of the second major war which pitted the world's two superpowers against each other in an attempt to become the only major force in the world. At the top of all the turmoil and bloodshed were two superpowers that were considered to be the pinnacle of strength and superiority: the United States of America (USA) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) or the Soviet Union for short.Īfter the Second World War ended in 1945, the world was scattered and most affected countries were trying to recover the massive post-war losses. The 20th century was the century of wars: two World Wars, a cold war, the Vietnam war, the Korean war, countless revolutions, civil wars, and genocides that spread throughout the entire 1900s. The world is in constant flux through time, many civilizations rise and fall at every corner of history from ancient Rome to the colonial Great Britan, history will always repeat itself.
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