The collapse of the Soviet Union

Everyone knows that the USSR went to death for a long time. There are many reasons for this - the authoritarian state, the monocentric decision making, the inability of the state to meet the demands of the population, the constant lag in living standards from the developed countries of the West, and towards the end unsuccessful attempts to reform the political and economic system, which, in fact, led to the collapse.
We present you photos of the last months of the Union.

1. People buy cups in a shop in the center of Vilnius 27 in April 1990. Despite the economic blockade of Lithuania by the Soviet Union, on its 10 day, products and other consumer goods were uninterruptedly coming to Vilnius stores. (AP Photo / Dusan Vranic)

2. Mothers who lost their sons in the Red Army stand on Red Square with photographs of their beloved children on Monday, December 24, 1990. At that time, about 200 parents protested near the Kremlin walls, whose sons died as a result of inter-ethnic violence in the army. In 1990, about 6000 servicemen died in the USSR. (AP Photo/Martin Cleaver)

3. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered at Manezhnaya Square in Moscow 10 March 1991, with the demands of the abdication of the authority of Mikhail Gorbachev and his communist associates. The crowd numbered 500 thousands of people, and it was the most numerous anti-government demonstration since the communists came to power. (AP Photo / Dominique Mollard)

4. Mikhail Gorbachev, surrounded by his "comrades" a few weeks before they head the August coup. Next to Gorbachev is the Vice-President of the USSR Gennady Yanayev, who will soon become the most prominent coup leader. The photo shows the country's leaders at the ceremonial lighting of the fire at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin in May 1991 (AFP / EPA / Alain-Pierre Hovasse)
See also the issue - Gorby - the man who changed the world

5. Soviet Tanks Against the backdrop of St. Basil’s Cathedral and the Spasskaya Tower on August 19, 1991, Tanks drove all Moscow to the white house, where Boris Yeltsin gathered his supporters and signed a decree “On the illegality of the GKChP”. (Dima Tanin / AFP / Getty Images)

6. Leaders of the August putsch from left to right: USSR Minister of Internal Affairs Boris Pugo, USSR Vice-President Gennady Yanayev, Deputy Chairman of the Defense Council Oleg Baklanov. They formed the State Committee on the State of Emergency and tried to prevent the collapse of the USSR. (Vitaly Armand / AFP / Getty Images)

7. The crowd surrounded the armored personnel carrier, trying to block the 19 road in August 1991. Military equipment took to the streets of Moscow after it was announced that President Mikhail Gorbachev had been removed from his post, and Gennady Yanayev had taken his place. (AP Photo / Boris Yurchenko)

8. Supporters of Boris Yeltsin roll a large pipe on the barricades, 19 August 1991 (Anatoly Sapronyenkov / AFP / Getty Images)

9. Boris Yeltsin on a tank in front of the 19 government building in August 1991. Yeltsin appealed to a crowd of supporters with his statement about the illegality of the actions of the Emergency Committee. (Diane-Lu Hovasse / AFP / Getty Images)

10. Speech by the President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev 20 August 1991 on television. In it, he reports that there is an unconstitutional coup in the country, and his health is all right. (NBC TV / AFP / Getty Images)

11. A demonstrator attacks a Soviet soldier near the White House 19 August 1991. On this day, thousands of people in Moscow, Leningrad and other cities in the country began to build barricades well, armored vehicles and troops. (Dima Tanin / AFP / Getty Images)

12. A demonstrator talks to a Soviet soldier on the evening of August 20 1991 (Andre Durand / AFP / Getty Images)

13. Demonstrators play guitars and chat with soldiers in front of 20 August 1991 White House (Alexander Nemenov / AFP / Getty Images)

14. People on the barricades in front of the White House 21 August 1991 (Alexander Nemenov / AFP / Getty Images)

15. The soldier swings the tricolor from his combat vehicle, while the rest of the military equipment leaves its borders after the suppression of the August 21 putsch. The putsch leaders fled the capital or committed suicide. (Willy Slingerland / AFP / Getty Images)

16. A crowd of cheering people outside the Russian government building rejoices at the end of the August 22 putsch (AP Photo)

17. Celebrations in honor of the failure of the coup and in memory of the victims of August 1991 (AFP / EPA / Alain-Pierre Hovasse)

18. Demolition of the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky on Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow 22 August 1991 (Anatoly Sapronenkov / AFP / Getty Images)

19. A Baku resident cuts with a hatchet a portrait of the leader of the world proletariat Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 21 September 1991 Azerbaijan was declared a Soviet republic in 1920, and in 1991 the National Council of Azerbaijan voted for independence. (Anatoly Sapronenkov / AFP / Getty Images)

20. The woman put the bag on the hammer and sickle dropped from the pedestal. December 25 2011 was the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the USSR. (Alexander Nemenov / AFP / Getty Images)

21. A young Lithuanian woman sits on a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Vilnius 1 September 1991 (Gerard Fouet / AFP / Getty Images)

22. The Soviet family is watching the appeal of the President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev about the resignation of 25 in December 1991. Gorbachev’s reforms gave the inhabitants of the red empire freedom, but at the same time led to its destruction. (AP Photo / Sergei Kharpukhin)

23. One of the last evenings, when the red flag develops over the Kremlin and Red Square, is the evening of Saturday 21 December 1991 of the year. The flag was changed to the Russian tricolor on New Year's Eve. (AP Photo / Gene Berman)

Comments

[Dust]

With whose photos - our bitter tragedy is savored by all sorts ...

[almost demobil]

Fuck it, pooh. s ... and ... I HATE !!!

[Tatars]

If it weren’t for the supporters of Yeltsin, the GKChP would have settled everything and, if they had failed and it turned out worse, they would not have intervened better

[nitro]

Cool photos, especially completely empty store shelves and the "interior" of the TV room. Why was such a "state" necessary at all, for whom?

[father tudy-syudy]

CIA agents picked up food from store shelves

[vadimus]

To restore its former power is not only a task for Putin, but also for you and me ...

[TAN_a_TOS]

Let us first make a normal society ...
I don’t think that it’s the Americans who force our cops to put bottles of asses suspected in the ass, officials to take bribes, and put asphalt on the road ...

[Region-25.rus]

Let us first become human beings, not cattle otherwise everyone is blaming everyone but for the most part they themselves do the same only on a smaller scale !!!

[father tudy-syudy]

for sure, and to ban similar photos from publication as anti-Soviet!

[father tudy-syudy]

what kind of power are we talking about?

[Call Sign Half Fifteen]

I am sure it will be so !!! And it's worth it ...

[chukapabra]

A terrible time, these errors will not be dismantled until today. Sorry for the country.
The whole gang of Gorbi, EBN, Shushkevich, Kravchuk - to the fucking wall.

[755962]

Over the barricade at the White House, along with white-blue-red flags, the Israeli flag was also hung. I think the comments here are unnecessary ...

[Drednout]

Chukapabra, I personally think that the collapse of the USSR began with Nikita Khrushchev. Began to introduce a consumer society and so on ...

[father tudy-syudy]

for sure, all in barracks and cards give out grub! Do not like it - clever in the camp

[father tudy-syudy]

and Kravchuk with?

[synchrophasatron]

The duty of Russia, as the successor of the USSR, is to punish everyone who ruined the country. So that from now on it would be disgraceful.

[father tudy-syudy]

whom and how exactly to punish?

[Kars]

What can I say, I consider the collapse of the USSR a crime that threw us back for 100 years and nullified all that blood, all the sacrifices that our peoples suffered.
With normal reform, the USSR would now be an economic leader --- as soon as all sorts of Egypt ceased to sponsor the ball, and reform the army, economic settlement. Cooperation.
But the local kings wanted the authorities, and openly without looking at the OBHSS ride on Mercedes.

[saturn.mmm]

After the death of L.I. Brezhnev and the short reign of Andropov, that lobby comes to power in the Central Committee of the CPSU, which gravitated towards capitalism. Then began a gradual decline in living standards, transparency, democracy, privatization. And everything else or side effects or scenery.

[father tudy-syudy]

there was no standard of living in the ussr

[Sibiryak]

"Everyone knows that the USSR has been going to ruin for a long time." - a blatant LIE !!!
The country was brought to this by some corrupt figures, including those depicted in the photo. Why is it that most of the various goods, and to be precise, non-expired products, were thrown into the trash with trucks, not shown in the photo !!! And it was in fact, I remember for sure! So not x ...... n lie from what the empty shelves in the stores were !!!

[apro]

The article is not very, the photo selection is tendentious, the impressions are gloomy. The USSR is a pity.

[father tudy-syudy]

ban photo

[SectoR]

"who remembers the old eyes out of sight, and who forgets both"
and we will return former greatness !!

[father tudy-syudy]

in how many decades?

[TiGRoO]

It hurts to see this ... I will write one thing, all the traitors will overtake the revenge of the people!

[father tudy-syudy]

and what exactly betrayed?

[chukapabra]

Someone specially led to the collapse, I remember the shops were really empty. But the people perceived this as temporary difficulties, everything will settle down, and then everything has collapsed. For some reason, the KGB was not prone to separatism of the republics. I remember there were lists of how in Ukraine they would heal well after separation. What type do they have everything, but they only do that they feed Moscow. I remember how overnight the Baltics turned out to be the leading exporter of non-ferrous metals in the world (after the ragged cables from all over the former Soviet Union were brought there (for some reason customs passed this all over) Collapse and mess. Racket and brothers. The whole country is on the market. And this is all because of Gorbi’s lack of will, party, leadership. Who should be judged

[father tudy-syudy]

while the people were interrupted by "temporary difficulties", the nomenclature's muzzles did not fit on the TV

[VadimSt]

The collapse of the Union was indeed inevitable. This is not the fault of the Soviet people and the machinations of the West (although they present it this way).
I am of the opinion that the principle worked - the fish rots from the head.

A stupid, uncontested personnel policy, over the past three decades, has allowed an extremely narrow circle of "elite" to be in power. Party "expediency" and "leading role" replaced the principles of democracy by the people, practically turning the Government into a "common cabinet" under the Central Committee. It is obvious that a different vision of the concept of development, the role and "political weight" of individual leaders led to the formation of intraparty clans and groups, which only brought this collapse closer.
The same thing happened at the republican and local levels, where people gradually came to power who revived the cult of "masters", "pans", and "beys". It was from the handouts of the local elites - those who did not want to return to the "common stall", with the next change of the "untimely departed leader", that the first shifts towards national sovereignty were born. I don't even want to speak about the state of the economy and the welfare of the people - whoever stood in endless, often ineffectual, queues, for everything and everyone, knows this very well.

[Vadim555]

Quote: VadimSt

The collapse of the Union was indeed inevitable. This is not the fault of the Soviet people and the machinations of the West (although they present it this way).

What are you saying, but inevitably?
Preparing for war undermined the economy?
Yes, this factor was present, but if they hadn’t armed themselves they would have simply destroyed us.
The main mistake was that under Khrushchev alien and hostile elements began to penetrate into power.
Ask yourself the question, What do all the "supreme" leaders in the USSR have in common?
They are all children of dispossessed and since childhood hated Soviet power.
But Yakovlev and Kalugin (KGB general) were generally recruited in 1958
(And maybe not only them)
Traitors Oleg Kalugin and Alexander Yakovlev
http://anticomprador.ru/publ/34-1-0-448

Why was the Soviet Union a more advanced civilization than the USA, Western Europe and Japan
http://rnns.ru/news/102598-pochemu-sovetskij-soyuz-byl-bolee-razvitoj.html

PS / Chancellor G. Kole said somewhere in the year 1984, If we do not do something, then we will have a socialist revolution.
Here Misha-tagged just arrived to help him.

[VadimSt]

Quote: vadim555

What are you saying, but inevitably?

With an entrenched political system, collapse was inevitable! The system of the socialist state was so "turned over and raped" by the leaders and their henchmen from power that people no longer even had fantasies about equality, freedom, a bright future and indestructible friendship of peoples!
Everything else that you motivate your position with is derivative!

This, you can now express your opinion about the state, if you want to go to Bolotnaya, skimp in the supermarket and prove your voting rights! There is nothing more to comment!

[Vadim555]

Quote: VadimSt

was so "turned over and raped" by the leaders and their henchmen from power that people no longer even had fantasies about equality, freedom, a bright future and indestructible friendship of peoples!

You +
And I’m talking about the same thing, they overdid the idea itself, but not in 89-91 years, but earlier!
The same humpbacked man, in order to be at the top of the pyramid, had to rely on his own kind, and they, in turn, dreamed of converting power into wealth, and preferably inherited.
So it turned out that the country itself artificially broke the power.
And suddenly a lot of kings were formed with absolute power, well, one should not forget about the assistants from = over the hill.

[VadimSt]

It's like that! After all, you yourself understand that three phrases do not cover all the causes and conditions!
It's a pity, it's a shame, but you can’t turn back the clock. We need new conditions, national leaders, a different public consciousness.

[Zynaps]

Quote: vadim555

The same humpbacked man, in order to be at the top of the pyramid, had to rely on his own kind, and they, in turn, dreamed of converting power into wealth, and preferably inherited.

And what, at least something fell into Gorbachev's paws? he has been spinning on handouts for 20 years - he will gobble up a pizza-hut with his granddaughter, then Louis Vatton will advertise suitcases. for the Father of Russian democracy and the giant of thought, the scale is insignificant.

any king who has more or less brains understands that the local kingdoms will get more profit if something happens - they directly sit on the mountains of materiel and cash flows. Gorbachev is typical. a monkey that got behind the wheel of a car on a steep bend. three general secretaries died (by the way, Chernenko, as it turned out, accidentally poisoned himself with fish) died without leaving a successor. Gorbachev was a compromise between the "old guard" and the "young growth". it would have passed, but not during a systemic crisis. nevertheless, in the country and in the authorities there were no moods to burn down, albeit an unprepossessing, but quite capital house and sell everything tries for glass beads.

[Arc76]

And that is why, apparently, the Berlin Wall was built to prevent the citizens of the FRG from breaking into the socialist paradise. Unfortunately, the opposite was observed. And finally, can someone explain why in the USSR the borders were locked for their own citizens. Apparently so that no one fled to the decaying west from such happiness. I liked the link - "despite the fact that there were empty shelves of shops, enterprises were constantly opening." This is the Soviet way, well done. Enterprises open, but the shelves are empty. Why then the enterprises?

[Zynaps]

Quote: arc76

And that is precisely why the Berlin Wall was apparently built to prevent the citizens of Germany from breaking into a socialist paradise

not therefore. Berliners wanted to live very smartly - to work in the western part, where the salary is higher, and to live and receive a free education in the eastern part, where the prices are lower and the social level is higher. and since the freebie is never endless, I had to do this. from the GDR to the FRG it was possible to leave freely - no one was kept. there was a legal way - official entries and countries, but there was a "tourist" one. using this method, the Aussies went on a tour to Hungary, and from there they easily went to Yugoslavia. from Yugoslavia - anywhere. but those degenerates who wanted additional extreme, it was necessary to run through the border zone. with clear consequences in advance.

the very existence of West Berlin occurred through an oversight of the Soviet occupation authorities. this gadyushnik had to be liquidated immediately, after the monetary reform in the "trizonia" - the western occupation zone of Germany, was not coordinated with the USSR.

Quote: arc76

Apparently so that from such a fortune no one escapes to the decaying west.

information for alternatively gifted: East Germany was almost completely destroyed and developed largely independently. at the same time, the East Germans had the duty of supplying the GSVG. mind you: for the GDR there was no Marshall plan, and Nazi gold was not pumped into it either. and at the same time, the GDR was the sixth economy in Europe.

however, if you do it wisely, then parasites like you should have been taken out of the country without pity - you should be longing for grave worms. but first having forced to pay for medical care, use of a state apartment, for secondary and higher (if received) education. and with a bare ass - forward, fortunately unlimited consumption!

Quote: arc76

Well, that’s Soviet, well done. Enterprises are opening, and the shelves are empty. Why then enterprises?

I explain specifically for the poor and suffering from memory lapses. it was not Soviet, but anti-Soviet. by the emergence of cooperatives and self-supporting organizations in state enterprises, by the decision of the Gorbachev Council of Ministers, it was allowed to cash out non-cash enterprises. it is difficult to assume that those who gave this permission did not know what cashless is for. he was an index of accounting and control over the work of the enterprise, but not a means of payment. as a result, a huge number of unsecured banknotes were thrown into the country's turnover, collapsing the commodity market from 89 to 91 years. but the law worked and new enterprises opened. for this, by all standards, it’s supposed to be 15 years of execution, but the goats managed to get off.

[Vadim555]

Quote: Zynaps

I explain specifically for the poor and suffering from memory lapses. it was not Soviet, but anti-Soviet. by the emergence of cooperatives and self-supporting organizations in state enterprises, by the decision of the Gorbachev Council of Ministers, it was allowed to cash out non-cash enterprises.

You +++
Now few people know about this "innocent prank", especially since this fact is hiding in every possible way and there is a substitution of concepts!

PS.e pay attention to the provocateur.

[Arc76]

What are you saying, you’ll bring statistics of escapes from a socialist paradise, and why did you dig it, you could leave freely, you lie again, comrade, why don’t you get used to putting black on white? And in general, the strange thing is that the citizens of Ukraine offer to expel a Russian citizen from their own country. This is a dear comrade-communist called extremism according to our criminal code. I bought an apartment two years ago on my own. And I happily consume it indefinitely. And the shelves and the deficit started expensive in the mid-eighties, so you’ll notice someone else’s blizzard Just a country where was not in the free sale of cars, could not stand the competition with an open society. However, you can organize Ussr again at your home, and start building communism and feel all the charms again. Ludita foret wa. .By the way, I also have medical insurance, if you know what it is.

[Zynaps]

Quote: arc76

And the regiments and the deficit began expensive in the mid-eighties, so you’ll notice someone else’s blizzard of your communist

with a poet, unable to correctly spell the word "eighties" and "extremism", I somehow even feel uncomfortable talking. like a five year old in a sandbox.

I would know that I was talking with the ignoramus, I would speak like a demented person.

I’m not going to talk about fixed assets, and why your ass still feels relatively comfortable thanks to the USSR, whose free sale did not have coral beads and multicolored glass pins that were sweet to your heart.

[Arc76]

If you call my Passat B6 a coral bead, then you, dear Ludit, were completely damaged by my mind, as I understand it, a special permit was needed to purchase a foreign car, but the citizens of a great country really behaved like Papuans if they managed to break out for a brief moment Western countries. Boiling soup began in the boiler in order to save money for the purchase of shiny trinkets and cheap jeans. And I print my dear faster than you think, and I’m not going to check literacy like most neta users, you have enough commies. That's uncle. PS But you were the first to fly into space, along with fixed assets.

[apro]

well written

[father tudy-syudy]

wise guy, do you even know what standard of living was in Germany?

[Vidgit]

Fucking Muscovites for the whole country solved the issue!

[Strezhevchanin]

Anglo-Saxons, my friend, Anglo-Saxons.

[snek]

Quote: Strezhevchanin

Anglo-Saxons, my friend, Anglo-Saxons.

If there is no water in the tap, it means they drank the liquid.
You know, there is such a familiar situation to many (to whom as children, to whom as parents) a situation when a child excuses himself saying "It was not I who invented it, but it was Vasya (you can insert any name here) suggested" to which the answer follows: "And if Vasya offered to jump from the roof? " So here the same thing "It was the Anglo-Saxons who pushed us!" Well, they may have pushed, but we (the people) went in the direction in which we pushed.

[Piligrim]

Yeah, I’ll continue from the same tale for suckers, - the crane at the construction site fell, - to blame!

[father tudy-syudy]

AND MOSSAD AGENTS

[chukapabra]

Quote: Vidgit

Fucking Muscovites for the whole country solved the issue!

Unfortunately, revolutions have always been made in capitals. And the outskirts are silent as always

[The centurion]

Quote: Vidgit

Fucking Muscovites for the whole country solved the issue!

And Moscow is no longer the heart, but the plague of our Motherland and there are worms and parasites of all stripes from all over the country who are striving for, and there is a marsh electorate there mostly. Thank God that now in winter they came to their senses in time and did not allow them to repeat.

[crossbow]

The fact that the collapse of the USSR was inevitable is certainly nonsense. In 1985 (or 1986), when Gorbachev came to power, no one could even dream of the collapse of the country in the worst nightmare (for Soviet citizens), and the United States could not even dream about it. the same problems arose under Gorbachev through the fault of Gorbachev and his comrades, the anti-alcohol campaign led to a sharp reduction in budget revenues with an increase in family budget revenues due to lower alcohol costs, the implementation of the rash enterprise law also led to an increase in salaries of gr azhdan — all this in the absence of supply growth (the speculative nature of the cooperative movement also affected) led to a pronounced shortage of consumer goods and food, which was further aggravated by demand rush in such cases and a sharp drop in planned discipline.
I don’t even want to talk about political destabilization - Gorbachev himself chopped the branch on which he was sitting, and probably with zeal incomprehensible to anyone and even voluptuousness. Everyone knows about Yeltsin’s destructive activity.

[snek]

And who brought Gorbachev to power? Or he materialized out of nowhere. At the time of his arrival in the USSR, there was an obvious crisis of power - the top at one time did not find the strength to give the reins of government to the young and promising (we did not find our own Deng Xiaoping) as a result - a "hearse race".

Quote: crossbow

the anti-alcohol campaign led to a sharp reduction in budget revenues while increasing family budgets due to lower alcohol costs, the implementation of the rash law on enterprises also led to an increase in citizens' salaries - all this in the absence of an increase in supply (the speculative nature of the cooperative movement also affected) and led to a pronounced shortage of consumer goods and food, which was further aggravated by the rush in such cases, demand and a sharp drop in planned discipline.

You can't even imagine how you insulted the USSR with this statement. It turns out the whole economy, all prosperity was based on drunkenness. Great, damn it. In general, the anti-alcohol company is perhaps the only thing that can be respected for Gorbachev - during its time the number of deaths directly and indirectly related to alcohol consumption has decreased, the birth rate has increased (in fact, with a birth rate at the level of a non-alcoholic company, there would be no demographic crisis). Of course, the number of cases of poisoning with "fired" alcohol has also increased, but if a person is ready to drink anything, as long as it contains alcohol, then this is his life, which is of no particular value to society.

[Arc76]

An anti-alcohol company would not hurt even now. The main thing that, in my opinion, ruined the USSR was the lie of the Communist Party to its own people. Against the background of a falling standard of living, the emergence of concepts such as getting a hold and the CPSU deficit, it was not a little embarrassing to lie to its people. And it was not too late to carry out reforms on the image of the Chinese and prevent collapse. A significant part of the USSR budget went to pumping countries such as Iraq, which could not or did not consider it necessary to pay for help, support was dictated by ideological motives. Oil exports were sold at preferential prices to the social camp countries. And of course, one should not forget how the Saudis brought down oil prices for six months, and this was a significant part of the USSR economy.

[Zynaps]

Quote: arc76

And of course, one should not forget how the Saudis brought down oil prices within six months, and this was an essential part of the USSR economy.

expert, before showering the interlocutor sucked from (we will not mention the source) amazing knowledge, I recommend that you see the figures of the Soviet foreign trade from reputable economists (Aganbegyan, for example).

USSR foreign trade in comparable prices amounted to national income as a percentage:

1971 - 20,0%
1976 - 22,1%
1981 - 23,6%
1986 - 22,9%

Do you understand the numbers? the maximum profit from all foreign trade operations was achieved in 1981 - less than 25% of the total national income. These operations included: oil, gas, oil products, machine tools, synthetic rubber, "belaz", products of tyazhmash, chemical industry, aircraft (the USSR controlled 40% of the world civil aviation market), ships, military industry, optics, precision mechanics and a million more items. If I still don’t understand, I’ll explain it on my fingers: in the total GNP balance, oil and gas sales abroad did not play a decisive role. a significant part of this oil and gas went along the CMEA line, and this is geopolitics, which you better not get into.

According to Aganbegyan, the total state budget revenues from Soviet exports fell from a fall in world oil prices in 1986 by only 8%, and in 1987 by another 4%. total GNP growth during these years: 4-5% per year.

to retell the nonsense of the half-educated Gaidar that a pitiful 2% caused the collapse of the USSR ... with this, perhaps, only to the clinic.

Quote: arc76

A significant part of the USSR budget went to pumping countries such as Iraq, which could not or did not consider it necessary to pay for help, support was dictated by ideological motives

and the digits in the beak can not be brought? I mean that all the help that the USSR provided was expressed in the amount of $ 20 billion for all the time, which for the scale of the USSR was equivalent to two visits to the cinema with ice cream. and at the same time they sought for the fishing fleet to engage in fishing in the very advantageous economic zone of Guinea Bissau (they helped, yes). helped Angola, and at the same time gained access to the extraction of local diamonds and polymetals. combined help with benefit for themselves. and even geopolitically won. as soon as weakened the onslaught, they began to lose.

and, by the way, they paid "like Iraq". when in currency, and when in oil contracts. The Russian Federation is still pumping oil on the Vietnamese shelf under Soviet contracts. stopped paying when the Union collapsed. and before that they did not even risk playing such games. people in the Politburo were smarter than you.

you would start with a primer - it would be much more useful, expert.

[Arc76]

Is it that Anabegyan who was Gorbachev’s adviser who failed the economic reforms? Authoritative opinion has nothing to say. However, Mr. Commie, how much you are yelling that the country’s USSR was better than the collapse clearly shows who is right. Well, yes, as in Soviet times, you were a master at creating collective illusions, and now, after your complete collapse, you are trying to justify it with factors independent of you. Actually, since you probably don’t use the wiki for the wisdom and intellect, I have to poke your hare in the dirt, as I usually do with commies. So we look at fuel and electricity in the export of the Soviet Union in 1988 amounted to 46 percent. If this is not enough, then you are apparently nostalgic completely damaged by reason. And these were just foreign rubles that were so lacking in the scoop. And you do not forget the type of economist that you all bring GDP from the calculation of the ruble to dollar rate of 0.59 to 1, which is full Nonsense. This is your juggling with facts and figures. It is laughable. According to the latest data, based on the so-called atlas method, the USSR GDP is 38,3% of the GDP of small FRG. So don’t notice me and the public as a comrade, it’s just ridiculous Regarding the type of Iraq, how you should not know Russia the other day forgave Iraq a debt of 42 billion dollars. This is the money that the Soviet Union pumped into Hussein’s regime, which then turned to your benefactors ass. So Mr. ludy, if you are already peeing to this site, then bring the facts, and not this husk that you find in the textbooks of political economy of the USSR for the tenth grade, which you can already see has been debauched to holes.

[The centurion]

Quote: snek

And who brought Gorbachev to power?

This question is the most interesting and so far the darkest. Much indicates that Yuri Andropov was the godfather in this matter. Why did he need to bring Gorbachev's Jew to power through the "hearse race" is a dark matter. And about the anti-alcohol campaign, everything is very ambiguous. With all the positive influences of such events, there is an indisputable fact. Any introduction of dry law in Russia leads to revolution or turmoil, this has already happened at least three times.

[Vadim555]

Quote: Centurion

Much indicates that Yuri Andropov was the godfather in this matter. Why did he need to bring Gorbachev's Jew to power through the "hearse race" is a dark matter.

On whose corpses Andropov and Gorbachev came to power
http://izyumov.ru/Vospominaniy_LG/Paralleli_jizn.htm

There are controversial issues, but overall there is something to think about.

[father tudy-syudy]

absolute misunderstanding of the Soviet economy and reality

[Stasi.]

The collapse of the USSR is the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century! It was not the fault of economic problems, although they were serious. No, the collapse of the great country was due to the betrayal of all the leaders - from the Kremlin elite to the local elite. The collapse was beneficial only to the elites, but not to the people. And to everyone who was somehow involved in the collapse of the country, we will remember all this. As Okudzhava sang: "but let us remember well the reason and the reason." We have not forgotten or forgiven anything. And we will return our greatness and power.

[Vadim555]

Quote: Stasi.

No, the collapse of the great country was due to the betrayal of all the tops - from the Kremlin elite to the local elite. The collapse was beneficial only to the elites, but not to the people

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[The centurion]

Quote: Stasi.

No, the collapse of a great country was due to the betrayal of all tops - from the Kremlin elite to the local elite. The collapse was beneficial only to the elites, but not to the people.

Treason on the part of the head of state is an extraordinary phenomenon. This has happened in history, but extremely rarely. Most often as a result of military defeat. But surrender the country to the enemy in peacetime and flee for permanent residence abroad !!! I don’t remember something. Maybe someone knows a similar example?

[Evgeny B.]

Please example: V.A. Yushchenko, former president of Ukraine. He taxied, disfigured, almost split the country and dumped his American wife and children over a hill.

[father tudy-syudy]

it was natural

[Yarbay]

They had to be shot !!

[warlock]

It was not in the world closer and dearer ...... It was not more beautiful than my motherland!

[yacht]

"Hundreds of thousands of people gathered at Manezhnaya Square in Moscow on March 10, 1991"


A strange square, it can accommodate no more than 10 thousand people, it can accommodate hundreds of thousands of people.

[laurbalaur]

I have a little knuckles on my fists from this photo!

[father tudy-syudy]

soldier with people

[Marat]

Betrayal of Gorby and his gang. The metropolitan marginals who joined them - "intellectuals" (among whom were stupid - deceived people - but also malicious enemies) and thieves with crooks who decided to become "capitalists" and millionaires. Frenzied pressure from external aggressors - and, in fact, the first successful "orange revolution", which took place due to the mass madness of the population of the USSR - who wanted sneakers and rags - who forgot how the country rose after the devastation - how quickly the standard of living grew and almost caught up with the western - with all other unequal factors. There was such a massive madness - admiration for the West and frank sympathy for

Nevertheless, the majority of the population nevertheless favored the preservation of the USSR — the people did not want the collapse and destruction of the country — but were deceived by the organization of the conspirators

I support the initiative of Starikov N. - to bring to trial the main traitor Gorbachev

I see a "ray of light" in the fact that despite the fact that the country has disintegrated - the population of its main wreckage is now much "smarter" than the Soviet one - we "ate" shit on mockery and do not experience any illusion about the West and the pensions have been reached, and also our oligarchs.

There is hope to reunite at least Russia Kazakhstan and Belarus into the Union, albeit smaller than the former USSR, but with a population much more clear and sober-minded - and inclined (frankly admit) in the majority anti-Western and decisive

[The centurion]

Quote: Marat

the first successful "orange revolution", which occurred thanks to the mass madness of the population of the USSR - who wanted sneakers and rags - who forgot how the country rose after the devastation - how quickly the standard of living grew and almost caught up with the western -

The laws of capitalism in action:
1. From each according to naivety, to each according to greed
2. I have glass beads, you barbarian have gold. And you will give me this gold for my glass beads, whether you like it or not.
3. Law 3P: eat, sleep, get laid

[procop843]

Moscow is not Russia, not Russia - not Russia. Russia Siberia. Oil in exchange for nothing.

[NIKOLAI T]

Custom lousy little article

[father tudy-syudy]

everywhere enemies

[crossbow]

snek,
Alas, alas, a very decent share of the USSR budget was formed at the expense of alcohol money, when they didn’t print it, and even with a planned economy it doesn’t lead to anything good, I didn’t write about the moral aspect of the anti-alcohol company practically the entire male part of the population literally hated Gorbachev and the government in general, even those who drank alcohol little and moderately for all these humiliations in gigantic bursts, all this also affected the rapid collapse of the Soviet system.

[Vadim555]

Quote: crossbow

Alas, alas, a very decent share of the USSR budget was formed at the expense of alcoholic money

According to various sources, 30-35%.

The main reason for the problems in the economy is cashing money by cooperatives!
When Pavlov did a reform of banknotes in the spring of 1991, the shops and small shops on this day were suddenly handed over revenues as much as a month in advance.
Here is such arithmetic.

[BAT]

Such a Power was sold, It is insulting to tears. And these bastards who ruined the USSR (humpback, ebn, Kravchuk, Shushkevich and all the other henchmen like Nemtsov) must be tried for treason and sentenced to the highest measure. Only in this way, it should not be otherwise.

[The centurion]

Quote: sichevik

Such a state is pro

Soviet power was very correct and fair, sorry for the fools.

[motors]

In fact, the economy of the USSR was impressive and could continue to exist. One of my relatives worked at the Institute of Econyms and she had access to objective statistics. According to the story, one can understand that she also consumed meat, sugar and other products (produced in a supplement), but they did not reach stores. Why?

I will not describe much, but in the region I am of the opinion that this is the work of the special services in order to create the dissatisfaction of the population with ongoing reforms as a result of which the role of the special services would be reduced many times.


Was the collapse of the USSR a collapse? it’s done exactly - no, because it was built on repressions (shtiks) if even with a slight softening of the political dictatorship everyone tried to leave such an alliance. Which is what happened.
What is called - a result on the face

[16]

many who in the pictures in the main characters would now regret what happened to such a once big and great country !!!!!!!!!! and I would personally shoot Gorbachev ------------ for the pigsty !!!!!!!!!!! it was necessary to act harder !!!!!!!! as well as Yeltsin !!!! I can not understand at all -------- for which they put a monument to him !! !! ruined the country !!!!!!!!!!! in exchange -------- devastation, unemployment, lawlessness, etc. etc. !!!!!!!!!!

[Stasi.]

The great Russian geographer, ethnologist and historian Lev Gumilyov divided people into passionaries, harmonics and subpassionaries. The highest type is passionaries. Strong-willed and courageous, they are ready to sacrifice everything for the sake of ideals and goals, in which they believe ardently and earnestly. The passionate is the first to take up arms when an enemy attacks a country, he is able to go full length on enemy machine guns. With the same fervor, the passionate invents, writes books, stores and spreads the faith. Material, earthly blessings for him are not a goal, but a means of serving the cause. Passionaries are the salt of the earth, builders and custodians of states.
The absolute opposite of them is subpassionaries. Their philosophy is "look where it is better, be always on the side of the strong, after us, even a flood." The main thing for the suba is his selfish desires, a passion for goods, satiety and money. They are not a means for him, but the goal of life. Subpassionaries give birth to traitors, bandits and mafiosi, deserters from the battlefield. They are cowardly and submissive to strong authorities. But as soon as she weakens, they turn into cruel beasts.
The third type is harmonics, personalities whose high impulses are balanced by a craving for wealth and a quiet life. If they are led by passionaries, the harmonica turns out to be honest workers, strong owners and good soldiers. Subpassionarity, its skillful cultivation - these are the weapons with which the West defeated us. Passionate personalities in every way spread rot and pushed. By the end of the 80s, our elite had become completely sub-passionate, and this is the main reason for the collapse of the USSR. We knew what our "elite" was, although we did not write about it in the newspapers. Unofficially, but everyone knew that there was a special alcohol clinic in Moscow, jam-packed with the offspring of the highest party officials. How Galya Brezhneva walks. As children of foreign correspondents of party newspapers do not want to return and how they smuggle. How Afghan veterans tried to put things in order and put in place the snickering children and granddaughters of the nomenklatura who walked in the "Metelitsa" and how they were forced to go and apologize, humiliating themselves in front of these children. As mothers advised their daughters to take the tenth way to bypass special schools where the children of the party elite studied - because there they could be raped or killed with impunity. This is how we had an "elite" in the late USSR and this "elite" destroyed the country.

[crossbow]

Stasi.,
The current elite is even worse, and by orders of magnitude and not at times, and they are not the elite, the elite are the best, and they are what always floats from above according to popular wisdom.

[valeri51d]

It’s not sad to realize, but that great country is no longer there, since we lived on the eve of the collapse of the USSR, it was impossible to live, we needed economic and political reforms, but unfortunately we didn’t have our Den Xiao Ping. And in order to save the Union, it was all necessary to arrest one alcoholic. But Mr. Yazov flew to Foros, asking for forgiveness.

Russian tsars bit by bit gathered Russian lands, and the builders and dermocrats squandered it in one year.

[Scorpion2012]

The collapse of the USSR occurred after the "perestroika" started by Gorbachev, but the role of M.S. Gorbachev in the collapse of the USSR is greatly exaggerated, since the reasons and conditions for the liquidation of the Soviet Union were created long before the last Soviet leader came to power, and during his reign, only what was prepared in advance by other people was done.
"The true reasons for the collapse of the USSR" shows who and why created the Soviet Union in such a way that it was prepared in advance for the future collapse, who and in what ways brought Lenin and Stalin to power, to whom and why it was beneficial, revealed the mechanisms of financing the Bolsheviks by American bankers.
Who is to blame for the collapse of the USSR - Gorbachev or Stalin? Such a formulation of the question may cause confusion for most people. However, oddly enough, Stalin is even more to blame - it was he who created the Soviet Union in the form in which it was doomed to collapse, it was Stalin who gave the Union republics the right to secede from the USSR, and what happened during Gorbachev's "perestroika" , was a direct consequence of the Stalinist model of government. If Gorbachev had not appeared, another would have appeared exactly the same. Concrete people do only what they can do within the System.
The KGB of the USSR used the state structure of the Soviet Union to collapse the country, the Soviet Chekists prepared in advance the future "young reformers" who destroyed the Russian economy, it is shown that the Soviet state security arranged pogroms in the union republics on nationalist grounds and created nationalist movements, brought the necessary people to power in the republics, instilled in them the ideas of separatism.
The country was split into pairs and the KGB and the CPSU.
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan - in all these republics, ethnic conflicts and separatism arose through the fault of the KGB of the USSR and the local party nomenclature,
The collapse of the "socialist camp", the overthrow of the communist power in the countries of Eastern Europe, also did not do without the "knights of the cloak and dagger" - both local and Soviet. State security agencies played a leading role in organizing anti-communist revolutions in Poland, Hungary, Romania, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and in some cases, methods were used for this very reminiscent of the so-called "color revolutions".
Why did the "August putsch" of 1991, in which the leaders of the Soviet Army, the KGB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs participated, ended with the defeat of the State Emergency Committee and the victory of Yeltsin? But because there was no "coup d'etat" in reality - the GKChP was a performance, a staging necessary to complete the process of the collapse of the USSR, and the security forces actually supported Yeltsin.
In connection with the above, the question may arise - what was the meaning of the deliberate collapse of the USSR for the Soviet special services and a certain part of the Soviet party and state elite, what was the benefit to them? To understand this, it is enough to look at the so-called "oligarchs"that suddenly appeared out of nowhere after the successful liquidation of the Soviet Union - you will definitely find Chekist, party, Komsomol or nomenklatura connections at anyone.
After reading the book under review with great regret, we can draw the following conclusion: the main reason for the collapse of the USSR was that it was originally created in such a way that it could be destroyed at any convenient moment, and when such a moment arrived, a huge country was destroyed extraordinary ease.

[Wolkin]

In early April 2007, a bill was introduced in both houses of the US Congress on the establishment of a new Cold War Service Medal, supported by a group of Senators and Congressmen from the Democratic Party, led by current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The medal is proposed to award all those who served in the armed forces or worked in US government departments from September 2, 1945 to December 26, 1991.

The very establishment of such a medal says a lot, for example, that the USSR did not fall apart. It was rumored that Gorbachev would be awarded this medal, but that would be too frank. Therefore, he was awarded the Medal of Freedom.

Freedom Medal 2008, awarded by the US National Constitutional Center, with the wording “for his courageous role in ending the Cold War. ” The medal was awarded by US President George W. Bush at a ceremony in Philadelphia on September 18, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

And in 2011 - the President of Russia - an order,

Order of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called (March 2, 2011) - for his great personal contribution to strengthening peace and friendship between peoples and many years of fruitful social activity.

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Список_наград_и_почётных_званий_Михаила_Горбачёва

[AK-74-1]

Article and photo are a definite plus. This is a memory of how they destroyed my country. This must be remembered and known. These photos are documentary evidence of the last act of great betrayal.

[mars6791]

That would be to collect all the captured demonstrators and evict them to the Russian hinterland, away from the oil pipe, or to the Caucasus, without the right to leave.

[mind1954]

A wonderful illustration for the phrase: "DO NOT BELIEVE YOUR EYES!"

Lies from the first frame to the last!
These ladies, storming military equipment - were sent for time off
"heroic" heads of the Jews of various offices!
All these photos and movie frames from the shops, right down to the fights -
- organized and filmed KGB-shniki! At that time, the equipment
was only with them, and only they could shoot! I would try
I shoot!?
You should have seen these elections of Yanayev in the half-empty hall of the Congress of Soviets!
Nobody knew him, and Gorbachev could not explain in any way.
to those present why he is needed, in general! ? He voted
repeatedly ! Then everyone got tired, Gorbachev said that his wife
He doesn’t complain about him, then everyone voted !!!
Show Manezhnaya Square - it's just a crowd of onlookers and nothing
more!
Itself was present at how the KGB whip conducted a group
football fans on a pre-built podium near
hotel "National" on February 23, chanting: "Yeltsin, Yeltsin ...!"
In the tunnel near the American embassy was, a week before,
rehearsed performance with tossing three corpses under BMD ...!
Equipment in the city was introduced according to the standard directive:
"On the protection of state institutions of the capital".
No one in the ruling class could understand why this "putsch" was needed ... ??? !!
They were convinced that this was necessary in order to disperse the CPSU and formally
split up political superstructures, and economic basis
will remain the same (single money, single army,
unified energy system, unified transport network), moreover,
that they held a referendum on the preservation of the USSR, and these, stupid
from greed and anticipation of wealth, fools ears and hung!

[Adolf Visarionovich]

Thieves from the ERC, where is the money to raise housing? Where is the child support? Where is our money?

[Alex63]

My opinion is this: the collapse of the USSR is an action carefully planned by Western political scientists and well-paid by the West. The USSR withstood the Second World War, rose from the ruins, withstood the Cold War, did not succumb to the West. But what the external forces did not succeed for free, was succeeded for the money of the West by Gorbachev, Yeltsin and their henchmen and followers and successors. The country could withstand, everything was for that. But when the Gorbachev and Yeltsin governments deliberately led the country to ruin, there was no one to resist here. Those who were against Yeltsin automatically became GKChPist. But that drunken crowd, which heeded his calls climbed onto the tanks and beat the soldiers, received from him complete approval and support. All over the world, an attempted coup d'etat is the gravest crime. And only in Russia awards were handed out for this. Yeltsin came to power illegally, all his further rule and re-election to the post of President of the Russian Federation are illegal. Let's face it. And the crowd that in the photo # 16 wants to ask: Did you want this?

[lotus04]

Time to collect stones.

[Uncle]

After the revolution, Patriarch Tikhon said that the cause of all the calamities was that the Russian people forgot God. There was a time to change their minds, did not change their minds, the monster of the Soviet Union fell apart. Apparently, the same thing awaits Russia.

[Head Physician]

Crime without punishment

[badens1111]

Quote: Scorpion2012

After reading the book under review with great regret, we can draw the following conclusion: the main reason for the collapse of the USSR was that it was originally created in such a way that it could be destroyed at any convenient moment, and when such a moment arrived, a huge country was destroyed extraordinary ease.

After reading this book, the question arises, what did the author smoke when he wrote it? And give a link to this opus.

[Nusret adigezalov]

) The truth is not where the "stereotypically BEAUTIFUL drawing" of impudently lying parrots-chattering and shamelessly-"confident [in impunity for hypocrisy]" play-heroes (semi-consciously instinctively drawn just for the sake of a pleasant "CENTER OF ATTENTION" and "daily bread, yes fatter "; by the way, trying to" indignantly-authoritarian "overwhelm and shut up not only the" unfamiliar truth ", but also the" competitive show-off "of those who are" less arrogant ", cynically" reproaching "in them all that" bad "[" leading to unfortunately "], which they eagerly and" boldly "do themselves, even without particularly hiding from the" general public ").
Truth is that condemned and forbidden (like "blasphemy", like "immorality", like "spam"), usually "unusually awkward" in form - "SHOOTING BOTH" - which BETTER explains the observed (vulgar) reality ... .. for example, the collapse of the Union. This is not about a CHANGE of ideological masks, but about the collapse (disintegration). ... i.e. - How could this happen? Where did the cunning "masters of the Empire" and their experienced "powerful" special services look (like "good fellows not only among their sheep")? After all, there were many much weaker, poorer, and even more multinational and huge STATEs in terms of population, which did not collapse from "poverty and weakness"!

"Perestroika". :) And how we, honest people, were deceived then! (once again!) Although our f @ n & was "no stranger to" (to the eternal lies and meanness of the "environment"), and many even had "pohuY", if only there was a reason to "chuckle and show off in the center of vulgar attention." But it was SOMETHING (super-arrogant, for the imagination-consciousness of an ordinary "slave of the state") !!!
...

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