The Fall Of The Soviet Union: Communism

THE FALL OF THE SOVIET UNION Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Some of the unreal aspects of communism which may have led to its collapse include the following three. One was the western aggression especially for the United States of America, this was on several occasions clearly evident, and for instance when the then president Ronald Regan called the Soviet Union an evil empire. He also made clear his intentions towards the Soviet Union. The American president indeed did support the strategic defense initiative which did nullify the nuclear arsenals from the Soviet Union. The United States also helped to drive the prices of oil to their very lowest in decades. This led to the Soviet Union’s economy becoming insolvent. This had the effect of making the Soviet Union start to crumble. The union structure itself had fifteen very different republics which were mostly incompatible wi...