The Collapse Of The Soviet Union

There is a saying stating that what must come up must come down and this is what happened to the red giant, the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union, the soviet giant that Ronald Regan referred to as the “evil empire” spanning across about a third of the world, was forged in the fires of revolution and ultimately going from the tyranny of the Czar system to the red communism that Vladimir Lenin introduced. Even with decades of the Soviet Union in a power struggle with America and capitalism, on December 25, 1991 the Soviet Union seized to exist and broke apart into separate countries, just to name a few some are the countries of today of Russia, Lithuania, Estonia and much more. The fall of the Soviet Union was on the hands of the man who wanted …show more content…
The spark that started was in 1989 when the Polish people wanted freer elections and to separate from the Soviet Union. Many eastern European countries wanted to get away from communism and one of the most famous events was the destruction of the Berlin wall in November, 1989 and in the same month the “velvet revolution” took place in Czechoslovakia where the people overthrew the communist government that was currently in place in Czechoslovakia. December of the same year Romania’s communist leader and his wife were executed in a firing squad and as with the death of the leader, the Soviet Union would soon perish as well. Communism and the Soviet Union were losing their grip on many countries like Poland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Romania. All of what was going on in Eastern Europe was what would eventually lead to the actual soviet states separating themselves from the Soviet Union as a …show more content…
This new system is with fifteen different independent nations they were linked to other Commonwealth countries by economic, and, in some cases, military ties (www.coldwar.org, 2015). These new countries had to face many hardships such as building up their economies, setting up political systems, and fight over long disputed territories. A number of wars have developed in the former Soviet Union, however all of the strife the people had to go through lead to the democratization, rebuilding and reorganization of many former Soviet countries. The fall of the Soviet Union was inevitable with the policy changes made by Gorbachev, the hate for how bad the economy is, and the need for change going to a more democratic system as a whole. The idea that what must come up, must come down is true with the red giant of the Soviet Union and it was brought down to its knees and completely destroyed by the people in place for better