Fall of the USSR

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The dissolution of the Soviet Union It has been one of the most important events that has occurred throughout the 20th century due, among other things, to the fact that it was the end in addition to the Cold War. In this lesson from a TEACHER we will offer you a short summary of the fall of the USSR which occurred between January 19, 1990 and December 31, 1931. During the course of this period we will find a series of treaties by which all the Soviet socialist republics were dissolved.

We started this short summary of the fall of the USSR talking about the economic situation that was lived in this ancient country. During the latter part of the 1980s we will find that the USSR faced a submerged economy, due to the huge jack that was made by the government to create weapons and keep the pulse of the United States of America.

This led the Soviet government to implement a series of measures by which the socialist republics were becoming increasingly impoverished by controlling their trade so that they would not make deals with other countries Europeans. In fact, it is known that many countries, after the breakup of the USSR, took even a decade to reach the economic levels prior to the introduction of the Soviet regime.

During the years prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a series of approaches were made to the rest of the world to guide the opening of the Soviet countries. In 1988 we will find the first independence movements in Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. On the other hand, the presidents of the two superpowers would meet to create a program of political reforms, opening for the first time the candidacies for the Congress of People's Deputies.

By March 1989 there would be the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, which were carrying ten years in the territory, while in Georgia a peaceful demonstration was crushed, resulting in 19 dead. In July of the same year, the president Mikhail Gorbachev, announced to the members of the Warsaw Pact that they could decide their own political future, that is, choose whether to stay within the communist system or open up to the rest of the world and enter the system capitalist.

It was at this time when there was a great movement within the Soviet countries to reach the rest of Europe, Hungary would be the first country to open its western borders. One of the most important moments and even that many people take as the end of the Cold War, occurred between November 9 and 10, 1989 when the the fall of the Berlin Wall, without the government of the USSR lifting a finger to prevent it. At the same time the regimes of Czechoslovakia, or Romania, began to fall.

In this other lesson from a TEACHER we discover you why was the berlin wall built. And in this other you can find a summary of the fall of the Berlin wall.

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We continue with this rshort summary of the fall of the USSR to speak, now, of the last years of the USSR. In January 1990 we will find again the request by the Baltic States to leave the USSR, although they will not be heard and also the revolts were put down with great violence. During the following months we will find great changes within this, and in addition there will be many demonstrations in which the government will act with an iron fist to avoid the lack of control general.

We will find an important step in June 1991, when for the first time Russians were able to vote for president of the country, being chosen Boris yeltsin, although for the moment we will not find the liberation of new countries of the union. In this way, Lithuania and Latvia once again had deaths in demonstrations at the hands of the Soviet army.

On July 31 the The United States and the USSR signed a treaty to reduce nuclear weapons, a very important element in international negotiations. One of the moments of greatest tension was lived on August 19, 1991, when an extremist group, seeing that the country was disintegrating and that there was no way to stop him, they decided to carry out a coup, taking out the tanks in Moscow, but the union between the majority of the army and the people of Moscow against the coup leaders prevented the reversal of events and thus ended the failed coup, and at the same time President Yeltsin took more fame.

Between the months of September and December we will find the independence of Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine and Belarus. But the fall of the USSR would not occur until December 25, 1991, at which time Gorbachev announced his resignation and at the same time the tricolor flag was established in Russia, eliminating the Soviet red flag in the Kremlin.

In this other lesson from a TEACHER we will discover the causes and consequences of the Cold War.