In the first half of the eighties in the USSR, there were frequent changes of party leaders: Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko then.The reason that the general secretaries is leaving his post, was good, death and cause of death, in turn, too respectful - old age and related numerous ailments.And so, in 1985, at the plenum of the Central Committee elected the new General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Gorbachev.By the standards of the then leadership, he was defiant young, he's only recently, during the nine days before the meeting, turned 54 years.
new leader of the party, and hence the country, understand that the world socialist system, and in particular the Soviet Union, a big problem.The economy is inefficient, people drink a lot of alcohol, and in general all somehow not so ... And he began to act.
month later Soviet citizens learned that the acceleration - it's not just what is the cause of the power, but this way of working.
Soon the anti-alcohol company, which resulted in the drink less did not, but the wine and viticulture industry suffered.Then came the policy of glasnost.Everything in order.
So acceleration policies of glasnost and democratization in the amount indicated by the word "perestroika", which is pronounced with the emphasis moving the leaders of Western countries are not translating into their native languages, like the word "satellite" in 1957.
Such rapid turns could not have had a devastating effect on the decrepit socialist system, but it was Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, ultimately led to its total collapse.
course, not to invent another parttermin to destroy their country.The original intent of the reformers of the Central Committee was given, just needed to embellish a story, to reveal some shortcomings, but the fundamentals do not touch, operate on the principle of "the bad Stalin, Lenin and good."If Bukharin was shot under Stalin, for example, it is because the latter was very smart too.And to prove a quotation from Lenin "Blue Notebook".Yezhov does not count his case.
But this policy of glasnost cause severe irritation in some Central Committee members and even ordinary citizens, and the famous Nina Andreyeva article in "Pravda" was their manifesto.
Trying to put under the control of the information flow, one of the leaders of the Communist Party Ivan Polozkov agreed even before the policy of glasnost, it is certainly good, but the right to have her exclusively Communists.
Sensing the weakness of the government, many of the leaders of the opposition movements, most nationalists began to stick to their line, causing death and destruction.This has happened in Nagorno-Karabakh, Tbilisi and other parts of the "high temperature".Trying to restore order by force led to even worse results.Ultimately, the majority of the population has understood that there is no "socialism with a human face" can not be.His face did not change.This explains the collapse of the coup attempt in 1991, Yeltsin's victory.
Thus ended the communist era, and the policy of glasnost.Achievements and its costs can now be analyzed.The former include suddenly emerged in the late 80s people's interest in the printed word, albeit short-lived.And to the second - unthinkable chaos into which the country was plunged twenty years and feel the effects of which we all long ...
