Glasnost policy - the cause of the collapse of world socialistism

In the first half of the eighties in the USSR there was a frequent change of party leaders: Brezhnev, Andropov, then Chernenko. The reason why the secretaries left their post was respectful, death, and the causes of death, in turn, are also respectful - old age and associated numerous ills. And now, in 1985, at the Plenum of the Central Committee, the new General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Mikhail Gorbachev, was elected. By the standards of the then leadership, he was defiantly young, he was only 54 years old, nine days before the meeting.

The new leader of the party, and hence the country, understood that the world socialist system, and in particular the Soviet Union , had big problems. The economy is ineffective, people drink a lot of alcohol, and in general everything is somehow wrong ... And he began to act.

Within a month, the citizens of the USSR learned that acceleration is not only what the reason is power, but also this way of working.

Soon the anti-alcohol company began, as a result of which it did not drink less, but the wine industry and viticulture suffered. Then the policy of glasnost began. About everything in order.

So, the acceleration, the policy of glasnost and democratization were summed up in sum by the word "perestroika", which the leaders of the western states spoke with a touching accent, not translating into their native languages, like the word "satellite" in 1957.

Such sweeping turns could not fail to exert a destructive effect on the decrepit socialist system, but it was Gorbachev's policy of publicity that ultimately led to a complete collapse.

Of course, they did not invent the next partermine to destroy the country. The initial plan of reformers from the Central Committee was different, it was necessary just to touch up the story, identify some shortcomings, but do not touch the fundamental principles, act on the principle "Stalin is bad, and Lenin is good." If Stalin was shot by Bukharin, for example, then because the latter was very clever. And in proof of the quote from Lenin's "Blue Notebook". Yezhov does not count, his business.

But such a policy of glasnost Aroused strong irritation among some members of the Central Committee and even ordinary citizens, and the well-known article by Nina Andreeva in Pravda became their manifesto.

Trying to put the information flow under control, one of the leaders of the CPSU, I. Polozkov, agreed even to the fact that the policy of glasnost, of course, is good, but the right to it is exclusively the Communists.

Feeling the weakness of power, many opposition leaders, most often nationalists, began to bend their line, sowing destruction and death. This happened in Nagorno-Karabakh, Tbilisi and other points of "high temperature". Attempts to restore order by force led to even worse results. Ultimately, the majority of the population realized that there could be no "socialism with a human face". His face does not change. This explains the collapse of the coup attempt in 1991 and the victory of Yeltsin.

Thus ended the communist era, and at the same time the policy of glasnost. The achievements and costs of it can now be analyzed. To the first you can refer to the population's sudden interest in the printed word at the end of the 1980s, albeit short-lived. And the second - unthinkable chaos, which was plunged the country into twenty years, and feel the consequences of which we will all be for a long time ...