Who Ruined the Soviet Union?

• It is unlikely that we, all living today, truly realize the fact that each of us, with the will of fate, is not only a witness, but also a real participant in the breakdown of our Great Homeland.

... It seems quite recently, just yesterday, we are all residents of a great world power -

The Soviet Union - tightly bounded by party dogmas, overwhelmed by the constant cares of daily bread in endless queues for the most necessary in life, in table conversations in kitchens, in private conversations in smoking rooms, bathhouses, in general, wherever we thought that we were not eavesdropped by party organizations , Special agencies and other guardians of the foundations, lamented the dullness and hopelessness of their existence, to the fact that from the first birthday to the end of life, each of us, like the cog in the car, once and for all intended his place in society.

"Where to us with a cloth snout, yes in a kalashny series?" Hopelessly dismissed those of us who were able to turn the seedy land into an oasis of fertility, who could, instead of the same type of housing boxes, build beautiful houses and villages in cities and villages whose scientific, technical and humanitarian developments could become a national and world pride, but who He could not sacrifice his conscience, the principles of being an honest and decent man. The system valued and nominated only those who could more skilfully extol her, unprincipled demagogues, flattering careerists and others like them.

If, who knew how many of us complained about the absence of genuine human rights and freedom in the country, the need to participate in showy demonstrations and elections, where everything is predetermined and where 99.9 percent of the consonants invariably attended.

And how we were dissatisfied with the widespread shortage of the most necessary in life, with fantastic overfulfilment of production volumes. When melting metal several times more than in the rest of the world, producing the most on the planet of fabrics, the country could not provide its population with enough ordinary pots, simple Cotton sheets.

In an undertone, with an apprehension, we were indignant at the widespread plundering of public property and products of production. In this, many of us, who consider themselves even people, in the midst of a general decline in morals, were themselves unwilling to take under the sly that lies badly, justifying themselves by the fact that All the same, they say, will vanish in vain or other utashchat.A lost and even deliberately destroyed, a large part of the output - due to the inability to remove it in time, store it, use it.

To the depths of our soul, many of us were indignant at the greed and corruptness of the party and Soviet bosses and their numerous lackeys, who always and everything got their hands on housing, health resort vouchers, food and clothing from the counter, from warehouses and bases. Everything and everything.

And it seemed to many people that it was precisely those "masters" of the country who were provoked and zazhravshiesya and replaced the paradise promised to us by the pioneers paradise hides. The unprecedented song of an unknown author in those years, which, as best as possible, generalized this general discontent and conviction of deceit was widespread in these years.

Wake up Ilyich, look at our "happiness", At this flat party meeting.

How we live under the yoke of autocracy,

You conquered victories.

The anti-Soviet and anti-Party anecdotes became widespread at that time. And the most curious thing was that the influence and authority of these semi-decent, semi-literate oral humorous stories proved beyond the numerous publications in the media, movies, books about our "happy" life and "beautiful "Reality, measterskie and even talented made by us, under the rigid, literally reflex self-control, under the vigilant gaze of ideological censors.

We learned the Aesopian language: to say one thing to think and do the other. We took over from each other the ability to put a particle of truth between the printed lines and then read them. With secret sympathy and approval, some of us listened to rumors about the actions of dissidents. The most bizarre ways we extracted the forbidden Literature and read it. They fell at night to radio receivers, ready to listen to enemy voices, though a little bit revealing the veil of official lies and deceit.

Together and massively rushed many of us into the world of alcoholic dreams, drunken relax, giving an illusory discharge to the exhausted soul. The number of alcoholics in the last years of Soviet power reached 22 million people.

And so intolerable was this awareness of the impossibility of changing or improving anything, which was so overwhelming to all of us, that the burden of unbelief, the opening up and denial of everything and everything that was already due to the law of the boiler steam vaporized could not but cause a large-scale cataclysm.

Today, many of those who failed to fit into the new conditions of life, as well as some political forces, seek to impose their own, far from reality, essentially conjunctural tactics of those events. They try to imagine the fall of the Soviet Union as a result of the treachery of the party elite, the destructive action of the inner fifth Columns, a consequence of enemy external influence.

All this is from the evil one. We are perfectly aware of the soul in you that, of course, there was also an external destructive influence, and the betrayal of the party leaders was, but they did not destroy the power of the Great Country. It is another matter that this is an external and internal impact Fell on the fertile soil of our secret desires and desires.

We must honestly and frankly admit that this is you and me: ordinary citizens, collective farmers, scientists with degrees, officials and party functionaries, journalists and leaders of all ranks, employees of special agencies - in short, all Soviet people, more or less, in a solid Mind and memory with their own hands contributed to the collapse of the Great Empire-the USSR and to me a social formation. It was not only that, but no one protested against the closure of the CPSU and the collapse of the country.

The all-encompassing avalanche of our instinctive resistance, the mass emotional aspiration for the pommels, the fanatical conviction that the worst will not lead to the unprecedented in the history of mankind of the subconscious revolution , before which the strongest bastions proved powerless. There was a coup in our heads that remained only legislatively and Documented. What was done by the leaders of Bellarussia, Ukraine and Russia. It was done, of course it was, according to the thieves. But this is another question.

Disappeared overnight all that.That seemed unshakable, indestructible. The fetters of dogmatism and nachetnichestviya.Poskalis were shattered by former idols and ideals. And ... it came to understand that it was not their fault or the late party leadership that had been overdone - it was to blame, firstly, The very idea of creating from us zashorennyh, bespolye.deidealnyh people, and secondly, we were all guilty, who suddenly wanted overnight all the blessings of the world, without taking into account their capabilities and merit. And together with this understanding, it also came that which later will be called a troubled time And in We lost an understanding that we lost not only the system, but ourselves. But regret, these were late.