Did Gorbachev cause the fall of the USSR?
I live in the United States and we were always taught that he did but it was somehow a good thing. I understand that Gorbachev wasn't the one who collapsed it and that it was Yeltsin who did, Gorbachev's reforms just caused it to happen because it caused so much nationalist sentiment to brew up, but I still think he is somewhat responsible. It was reckless and stupid to abandon Marxism-Leninism for Social Democracy and it was also reckless to let the eastern bloc have elections knowing that the CIA would mess with them which they did. I understand that stagnation was a problem but he should of listened to Deng's advice rather than allow so much nationalist sentiment to brew up and illegally dismantle your country, I understand that the USSR kind of sucked domestically but foreign-policy wise it was the most moral superpower to ever exist, and the bar is very low.
>>>/Draw/5715>>2653020Nope. He was 50 years late with his reforms.
I've gone through the reasons for the collapse of the USSR numerous times, so I can't be bothered to write out another several thousand word post, so just quick pointers.
- Inherited shitty Tsarist institutions and adopted nomenklatura as the way to rise up through the party
- This meant the entire system created a system of nepotism + merits. Instead of working together, people gamed the system to sabotage rivals instead making them look better.
- Purges happened, Communists didn't know how to shut their mouths and fell to libtard rivals who played the game.
- Stalin dies, Libtards come to power
- Destalinization is really just Decommunization-lite
- Soviet ministry of finance becomes more powerful as Financialization starts to occur, they start sabotaging the central statisics bureau with funding cuts. This means GOSPLAN starts to falter and reforms like OGAS (Soviet internet) get canned.
- 1965 reforms come in pushed by Kyosgin and Liberman, within 5 years these plans will kill functional central planning and GOSPLAN in the USSR. By 1970, not a single top down target is being met or cared about.
- This empowers the Red Directors of Industry, they become even more insanely corrupt and basically will only do their jobs if you bribe them, this attitude of quid pro quo sweeps across the USSR, to even see a doctor you need to bring a "gift" or to get a decent cut of meat you bring a gift to the butcher etc.
- Brezhnev is just a military/heavy industry brained nationalist, who empowers other nationalist allies across the USSR.
- So now you have Nationalist presidents + Red Directors who are functional Capitalists.
- Andropov comes in, KGB, wants to reform the USSR, brings all sorts of advisors in, basically ends up with a more Xi-style approach, anti-corruption, light economic reforms, clamp down on social degeneracy and restore Communist values
- Dude dies from Type 1 Diabetes as soon as his reforms start to see results
- Dude brought back literally exiled Capitalist shitlibs just to see what they had to say, now they are at the top of the USSR advisory apparatus.
- They get a puppet in, they seize their opportunity with help from the Red Directors and Nationalist Presidents.
- *Komm Susser Todd starts playing*
Gorbachev was just the culmination of nearly half a century effort by opportinists to dismantle the soviet system