Collapsing of Soviet Union

In 1985 a new leader of the Soviet Union appears, this person was called Mikhail Gorbachev, who study law in Moscow. When he became the leader of the USSR he changes the policies of to his own policies, but this change did not help, so how far was Gorbachev personally respond for the collapse of control of the eastern Europe?

When Gorbachev became leader of the USSR, they were in war against Afghanistan so the money was very low, also the alcoholism was improving in a increasingly way, it became an epidemic with a lot of deaths. When he enter into to the dictatorship his policies were different in a good way, he planned a programme of reforms to let the soviet union to recover. He had to key ideas that were Glasnost (frankness) and Perestroika (restructuring). He did this to open a debate on government policy and to tell everyone about the problems. In 1987, his Perestroika programme allowed market forces to be part of the soviet economy. With the weak economy and the arm race, Gorbachev realize that they had to finish using money there because they will never be better than the USA on nuclear weapons, he signed a treaty with the USA to take out most of their missiles from Europe. With this desitions of Gorvachev we realise that he is leaving aside all the ideas of the soviet power that were based on, also with the poverty and the confusion with the new way of thinking, these gives a clue for the people of eastern Europe that the USSR would not dominate their lives for much longer.

In 1989 the communist regimes of Eastern Europe fell one by one because it was not supported by the soviet military power. It starts in May, Hungary opened its border to non-communist Austria, the Iron curtain was discovered. In June when Poland free elections were held, solidarity won the elections and Eastern Europe gets its first non-communist leader, Lech Walesa. In October Gorbachev went to East Germany where he said to the leader, Erich Honecker, to make a change but the troops refuse. In November the Germans of the east finally pulled down the Berlin wall. Later in November the Czech government had srikes and opens its borders with the west, also let the creation of other party. In December the revolution of Romania was finishing, they take out the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, it was declared that in Hungary the free elections will be in 1900 and in Bulgaria are big srikes against the communist government. In the year 1990 in March Latvia, a small country very near to the Soviet Union, declared their independence (from the USSR). One year later, in 1991, Gorbachev resigned.

To conclude, I think that changing the policy to their own policy wasn’t a very good idea because it destroys the Soviet Union. They lost the control of the Eastern Europe because of his fault, but he helps all the countries to get their independence from the USSR, so they had to say thanks to Mikhail Gorbachev due to the fact that he did this.