Analysis of Soviet Union Collapse

Share of the Soviet--

the share of the Soviet legacy, the bigger the better,

and we see how it turned

out. The Soviet Union's collapse was, uh, due to

a combination of internal imbalances, we have to be frank about that, as well as

the mistakes made by succeeding generations of the country's

leadership. The short-sightedness, the narrow-minded, and

erroneous ideological stereotypes rather than pragmatism and

professionalism, and also downplaying the apparent

problems.

All of that gradually eroded and chipped away at the internal and

external position of the USSR and brought about its collapse