I surprisingly don’t know as much of the dissolution of the USSR as I would hope. I know that 70%+ of every polled nation wanted a reformed Soviet Union not dissolution, but why did it get to that point. Did things slowly decline since Khrushchev, since Brezhnev, or later? What led to the liberalization of their statesmen? Like, Gorbachev and Yeltsin (I think?) were involved in government, how did this happen? Were Glasnost and Perestroika the killing blow after a long time coming or were they the first of their kind? Do most communists dislike both of these policies or were they decent ideas that were fucked up in implementation? Thanks in advance I don’t know enough about the details of the USSR’s fall
Interesting I never knew Glasnost and Perestroika were unpopular. Thanks for the info. Also no lie, as someone from a Slavic family, I have to say that was the one decent policy decision of Gorbachev, the vodka thing. I mean I don’t wanna sound depressing or anything but seriously alcoholism is really not taken very seriously by some people (ahem half my family) because they think being Slavic means they have a liver crafted from Tungsten. And that affects families and life expectancies. Someone needed to do something about the nation’s alcohol problem, but maybe Gorbachev handled it poorly.