Why Did The Soviet Union Lose The Cold War
Cold war was a state of political and military tension after world WW2 between powers in western bloc and eastern bloc. The westerns bloc’s military is so much weaker than the new rising eastern bloc country because of the serious wound from ww2. It seems the western bloc country got no chance to win. But the cold war ends with the instantaneous collapse of Soviet Union. I think there is three reasons that caused Soviet Union lost this war. Frist of all it’s the awful foreign policy of Soviet Union that pushes all their allies away. Although Soviet Union had used the slogan of liberate the world to support many natives of the western colony to fight for freedom and it works very well, but the soviet union never takes her allies as her allies,
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Because most of the lands of Soviet Union like Ukraine and white Russia are token by force and the natives are not Slav people (major race in Russia), so the problem of internal contradictions comes since the founding of soviet union. After the death of Lenin, the soviet union is at the edge of collapsing, Stalin had tried great purge to clear out all the heresy, but that didn’t work a lot, luckily the invasion of the German had actually saved the government of soviet union by unifying all the race and thoughts to fight the invaders and Stalin gained the power of soviet union by the great parotic war which makes the communist government could rule soviet union for longer time, but after the death of Stalin, the great power he left led a big fight in the Russian communist party and the problem came again. At the age of Gorbachev, soviet unions situation become even more worse. The conflict that got press down by the strong power of government had been totally released by the power of government getting weaker. Gorbachev only can give up his power in this kind of dangerous situation to let the situation not getting worse. Yelstin toke over the power and disintegrated soviet union. And the internal contradiction had finally destroyed soviet
Because most of the lands of Soviet Union like Ukraine and white Russia are token by force and the natives are not Slav people (major race in Russia), so the problem of internal contradictions comes since the founding of soviet union. After the death of Lenin, the soviet union is at the edge of collapsing, Stalin had tried great purge to clear out all the heresy, but that didn’t work a lot, luckily the invasion of the German had actually saved the government of soviet union by unifying all the race and thoughts to fight the invaders and Stalin gained the power of soviet union by the great parotic war which makes the communist government could rule soviet union for longer time, but after the death of Stalin, the great power he left led a big fight in the Russian communist party and the problem came again. At the age of Gorbachev, soviet unions situation become even more worse. The conflict that got press down by the strong power of government had been totally released by the power of government getting weaker. Gorbachev only can give up his power in this kind of dangerous situation to let the situation not getting worse. Yelstin toke over the power and disintegrated soviet union. And the internal contradiction had finally destroyed soviet