Glasnost policy - the cause of the collapse of world socialistism

In the first half of the eighties in the USSRthere was a frequent change of leaders of the party: Brezhnev, Andropov, then Chernenko. The reason that the general secretary left his 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 therefore the country,I understood that the world socialist system, and in particular the Soviet Union, has great problems. The economy is ineffective, people drink a lot of alcohol, and in general everything is somehow wrong ... And he began to act.

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

Soon the antialcohol company beganthe result of which they did not drink less, but the wine industry and viticulture suffered. Then the policy of publicity began. About everything in order.

So, the acceleration, the policy of glasnost anddemocratization in the sum were denoted by the word "perestroika", which, with a touching accent, was pronounced by the leaders of the Western states, not translated into their native languages, like the word "satellite" in 1957.

Such rapid turns could not butdestructive action on the decrepit socialist system, but it was Gorbachev's policy of publicity that ultimately led to her complete collapse.

Of course, not for that they invented the nextparttermine, to destroy the country. The initial plan of the 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 undercontrol, one of the leaders of the CPSU I. Polozkov agreed even to the fact that the policy of glasnost, this, of course, is good, but the right to it is solely by the Communists.

Feeling the weakness of power, many leadersoppositional trends, most often nationalists, began to bend their line, sowing destruction and death. This was the case in Nagorno-Karabakh, Tbilisi and other "high-temperature" points. Attempts to restore order by force led to even worse results. Ultimately, the majority of the population realized that there can not be any "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 timepolicy of publicity. Achievements and costs of it can now be analyzed. The first one can be attributed to the sudden interest of the population in the end of the 1980s to the printed word, 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 ...