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Question by ahmed y: Did the Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev accept bribe from the Americans to disband the Soviet Union?
the process in which the soviet union cracked down makes me suspect that the americans have got a hand in the process…..
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Answer by koopie koo
hmm
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DiesixDie says
No, they just ran out of money because their system sucked. Of course we had a "hand in the process". We were their adversaries/allies for several decades. We had a hand in everything that happened in the USSR, in some indirect way, and our government used them as a tool to manipulate society here, and all over the globe.
We were an adversarial interlocking system. Bribes were unnecessary.
Richard B says
probably not
BUT he was educated in the West and understood the inherent moral flaws in communism as it was practiced in the USSR
He realized that the system was based on a totalitarian empire idea and could NOT possibly continue
the USSR was much closer to bankruptcy than the US, but the cold war was a massive strain on the economies of both.
USSSR cracked first.
the americans could NOT have offered a bribe any bigger than what he had a leader of USSR, essentially everything, what could he have bought that russia could not have supplied?
World politics is a 'great game" the players shift but the game goes on.
As long as the mass of people act like sheep, they will be shorn for their wool (production) and killed for their meat ( disposed of when useless)
It is not america , it is the world system.
like it better under Kaddefi in Libya?
Will says
The Soviet Union disbanded because they bit off more than they could chew and it all caught up with them. Stop over analysing.
Amarnath C says
No,not at all.
All the best.
In Guns We Trust &am says
No.
Gorbechev recommended free-market/capitalist reforms in order to make the economy work better. They were facing what happens when you have too much regulation. The quality of everything was going down and prices were skyrocketing. They were pouring waaaay too much money into their military.
China realized this back in the 1960s and proposed free-market reforms in order to keep their economy from crumbling.
Nearly every communist nation except North Korea has done this and their economies were able to adjust.