FALL OF THE SOVIET UNION
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- Over the next 6 years I introduce Perestroika and Glasnost to dig us out of our economic hole
- Military projects
- Agriculture declining
- The USSR is facing many internal problems the economy was suffering, the politicalelite are dying out and corruption is eating away society
- Mikhail Gorbachev1985
- The Soviet union need reforming and modernizing, as the USSR is facing problems I propose solutions.
- Perestroikaallowed for some elementsof free enterprise in the soviet economy. Glasnostwhich allowed for the opening of the politicalprocess and the granting of more freedom. This metthat the Soviet Union would no longer come to the aid of communist regimes in E. Europe
- MAC DONALD'S OPENING
- Foreign trade was extremelylimited and the agriculturalindustry stifled because farmers didn'thave control over what they plant and charge for what they harvest.
- WE WANT GLASNOST AND PERESTROIKA ASWELL!!!
- Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985 and was a more liberal Russian in the SOviet UNion
- Same! I feel so free and i am no longer scared
- Yeah there are so many things the government could improve on that don't make sense...
- Come check out my small business!! Best chocolate store around!!
- With the fall of the SovietUnion, political alliances changed and economic interactions grew this improved relationshipswith the west. In January1990 the first Mac Donald'sopened in Russia, this marked the new beginning after the end of the cold war.
- The people in eastern Europe were hoping that the policies would be introduced to their homelands as well. They craved change from the freedoms granted by perestroika and glasnost.
- Glasnost andPerestroikareformed policy reduced censor ship people could now speak out againstthe government, small businesses were allowed to open and an increased the freedom of the press. Russian culture began to bloom because of an increase of expression freedom.
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