Pictured is Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union
As the most powerful competitor of the United States during the Cold War, the Soviet Union had great power, but such a red superpower collapsed in 1991 and disintegrated into 15 countries, so why did the Soviet Union collapse 30 years ago? What kind of warning can it bring to the newcomers? In this regard, some experts said that these 4 reasons are very critical, and 1 of the reasons behind them is also related to China, and each country must avoid these points so as not to step into the trap.
The picture shows the political commissar of the Soviet Army
In the 1980s, the Soviet Union's military strength reached its peak, even without the use of nuclear weapons, tens of thousands of tanks and followed by mechanized infantry could advance from the Soviet border to the English Channel in a month, but such a powerful Soviet Union suddenly disintegrated in 1991, becoming 15 countries that could no longer compete with the United States and Europe, and an important reason for the collapse of the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union's military exhaustion.
At first glance, the Soviet Union had tens of thousands of tanks, which could be pushed all the way throughOut Europe at any time, and seemed to be very powerful, but these tanks needed to spend a lot of maintenance costs every year when they were not engaged in combat, plus the Soviet Union at that time was engaged in an arms race with the United States, and allocated a large amount of military funds every year to produce new weapons and equipment, which was a very large burden on the Soviet economy, so the final disintegration and the reason for the participation of the armed forces in the arms race were very much related.
The picture shows a Soviet tank cluster
The second reason is the soviet union's wrong ethnic policy, as an alliance of more than a dozen countries, the ethnic relations in the Soviet Union are extremely complex, but the Soviet Union often divides the national settlement area as the boundary when dividing the administrative region, this division method hinders the mutual integration of various nationalities in the Soviet Union, and the Soviet nationalities that cannot complete the national integration have erupted into a very strong centrifugal force, the people's hearts are not aligned, naturally unable to preserve the national unity of the Soviet Union, and the third reason is external reasons. Since the first day of the establishment of the Soviet Union, the Bolshevik regime, the United States and other capitalist countries have never given up on letting it perish, in fact, when the revolution led by Lenin was not yet successful, 14 countries, including the United States, formed armed intervention forces to intervene in it, and after being defeated, these countries turned to other ways to intervene in the Soviet Union, such as peaceful evolution, public opinion strikes and economic sanctions, which also laid an inducement for the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The last reason is that the extreme imbalance in the development of the Soviet Union's domestic industry is caused by the extreme imbalance in the development of the military industry and the United States, the Soviet Union needs to vigorously develop heavy industry such as steelmaking, so the Soviet Union's heavy industry is extremely developed, but the light industry is very weak, and half of the necessary food, clothing, housing and transportation needed by ordinary civilians are related to light industry, so the Soviet Union at that time even once imported light industrial products such as clothing from China, but the Soviet Union took the initiative to fight with China, resulting in the middle of the import and export of light industry between the two sides. As a result, it was difficult for the Soviet people to meet even the most basic food, clothing, shelter and transportation, which made the masses even more dissatisfied with the Soviet high-level.
Pictured here is Gorbachev and Yeltsin
In short, the collapse of the Soviet Union did not happen overnight, as early as the 1980s, the trigger for the collapse of the Soviet Union has been buried and quietly developed, in 1991 many factors worked together, so that the huge red power suddenly collapsed, but also for other countries to sound the alarm bell, the need to pay attention to the trend of domestic society at all times, to avoid repeating the mistakes of the Soviet Union.