As the title says. This is something that has always confused me, but why was it so easy to dismantle the Soviet Union? The blame is usually put in Gorbachev and Yeltsin, but the Union wasn't governed by just a single man. The whole CPSU was responsible for the government's actions. How was it, that these opportunists managed to get in there and just tear the country apart?

Also, how was it impossible to restore the previous order? So Yeltsin, a liberal sell out, is in power and nothing can be done to remove him and restore socialism? Why were the protests to bring back socialism not enough?

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[–] 14 points 10 months ago*

Easy? It took 77 years of constant pressure to dismantle the USSR. They were under attack both militarily and economically from the first moment. The only time the pressure let up an iota was when the liberals created fascism and convinced the Soviets to fix their mistake and then there was significantly increased pressure from the fascists themselves.

There was nothing easy about it.

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