It empowered angry citizens to protest against communism and the Soviet government.
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Gorbachev launched Glasnost and Perestroika, which mean freedom and rebuilding, roughly. These two policies liberalised (as in made more free, not like American 'liberal') the economy and How_did_the_changes_encouraged_by_Mikhail_Gorbachev_lead_to_the_break_up_of_the_soviet_unionof the USSR. This meant that the economy began to go out of control due to the problems associated with central state planning's protectionism of industry and that the media was now allowed to write about the problems and criticism of the Soviet Union and its leaders that it could not before. Both of these problems were vital the the fall of the USSR because it lead to a collapse of its economy (the economy was too protected to convert back to capitalism easily) and political turmoil, especially by the growing ethnic violence in the union. When Gorbachev refused to intervene against anti-communist movements in Poland as his predecessors had in Hungary or Czechoslovakia, the Eastern bloc nations gradually fell to more capitalistic regimes and thus the Soviet bloc itself slowly collapsed. As it collapsed, constituent countries within the Soviet Union (especially the Baltic countries) wished to leave and become independent again, and they did.
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He betrayed the whole country. He was a weak and mercenary leader and everyone hates him for that. Now he lives in London and makes money from food called in honor with him: Pizza, vodka and so on.
Gorbachev launched Glasnost and Perestroika, which mean freedom and rebuilding, roughly. These two policies liberalised (as in made more free, not like American 'liberal') the economy and media of the USSR. This meant that the economy began to go out of control due to the problems associated with central state planning's protectionism of industry and that the media was now allowed to write about the problems and criticism of the Soviet Union and its leaders that it could not before. Both of these problems were vital the the fall of the USSR because it lead to a collapse of its economy (the economy was too protected to convert back to capitalism easily) and political turmoil, especially by the growing ethnic violence in the union. When Gorbachev refused to intervene against anti-communist movements in Poland as his predecessors had in Hungary or Czechoslovakia, the Eastern bloc nations gradually fell to more capitalistic regimes and thus the Soviet bloc itself slowly collapsed. As it collapsed, constituent countries within the Soviet Union (especially the Baltic countries) wished to leave and become independent again, and they did.
He introduced glasnost and perestroika to reduce spending on the military and spend more on the economy.However,his policies did more bad than good and the effect backfired.The soviet union collapsed because of his policies by granting more freedom to the citizens,they took advantage betrayed Gorbachev.
He decided to tear down the Berlin Wall, and he institued the Perestroika and Glasnost polcies.
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Mikhail Gorbachev.
The final leader of the communist soviet union was Mikhail Gorbachev.
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it weakend the soviet economy and encouraged mikhail gorbachev to promte reform in the Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbachev.
The final leader of the communist soviet union was Mikhail Gorbachev.
Mikhail Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman, the 7th and last leader of the Soviet Union.
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Gorbachevs reforms Novanet ~ A high unemployment rate
Mikhail Siminov was born in 1930, in Soviet Union.
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