More than thirty years have passed since the drastic changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and the views of the academic circles on this historic event that shook the world are still divergent and inconsistent. However, truth exists objectively, and knowledge that conforms to truth is always an understanding.
In fact, the existence of the privileged classes of the SOVIET Union was in line with the social development of the USSR, and they were consistent with the state and, of course, played a specific role in the upheavals of the USSR. These specific effects can be called "infidelity" acts.
By the time of Gorbachev, the privileged classes of the Soviet Union were no longer satisfied with the extravagance of life offered by the state, or they were no longer absolutely motivated by the pursuit of enjoyment. In the eyes of the privileged classes, enjoyment is only temporary, and once the Khrushchev-like reform of the country takes place, all privileges will eventually disappear, which is of course not conducive to the development of the family privilege system.
For this reason, the privileged class wants to form a solidification of the class in order to pass on the privileges it enjoys to future generations.
At the same time, when the privileged strata are preparing to lobby the top of the state, they are surprised to find that the so-called "interests of the people" and the aura of public servants hanging on their lips have lost their use value. The original privilege must be transformed, otherwise it is bound to suffer a retaliatory blow.
In this case, the privileged class of the Soviet Union suddenly discovered the benefits of the Western capitalist system, and they could legalize the usurped assets without any burden and turn them into fixed financial support for the family, which made the Soviet elites in the tangled interests shine.
When the Soviet Union faced the survival of the state, the privileged classes openly acted as lackeys of the West in order to preserve their own interests and legitimize them. Without hesitation, they tore off the mask of hypocrisy, openly attacked the shortcomings of Soviet society, and even distorted and smeared the history of the Soviet Union, while on the other hand, they vigorously advocated the superiority of the Western system and proposed to take the road of total privatization.
So how did the privileged classes of the Soviet Union relate to the West? What kind of ulterior secrets do they have in their conspiracies again and again?
In November 1991, a group of Soviet experts visited Houston, the United States, during which former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was invited to give a speech of more than forty minutes.
At the meeting, Thatcher's central idea can be summarized as "how we disintegrated the Soviet Union". Even though there were Soviets at the venue, Margaret Thatcher was open and unabashedly explained to the participants her crucial role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
"We have been taking action to prepare to weaken the Soviet economy and create its internal problems, the main means of dragging it into an arms race," she said. Regrettably, however, the Soviet government did not get caught up, and we fell into a difficult situation. However, it was soon informed that after the death of the Soviet leader, those we helped might succeed to the post and then implement our ideas. ”
Who is this successor, who is this successor who has been helped by Westerners? Let's move on.
Margaret Thatcher said: "According to the opinion of the experts of the think tank, this person is Gorbachev, and our evaluation of this person is not prudent enough, easy to be induced, and vain. ”
Yes, as Margaret Thatcher said, Gorbachev finally succeeded in ascending to the throne with unknown support, and the first thing he did in office was to establish good relations with the Soviet elite.
It is reasonable to say that Gorbachev's rise to power can be in the interest of the West. But for the sake of safety, Thatcher's think tank pushed Yeltsin against Gorbachev, even though it took a lot of effort to propel Yeltsin to the position of chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet.
By the time the Privileged Classes of the Soviet Union were completely tied to Western proxies, the Soviet Union began to change.
Throughout the Gorbachev Reform period, the privileged classes used their power to make a big profit. In particular, the Soviet elites who were in charge of state-owned enterprises took advantage of the power given by Gorbachev to vigorously engage in "flop economy" in foreign trade, and put all state-owned assets into their own pockets. Later, a few of them evolved into new financial oligarchs, of course, this is also a later story.
According to Russian investigative agencies of the same period, most of the tens of thousands of moscow's rich men in 1991 were former Soviet party and government cadres. These people not only reaped personal gains, but also continued to occupy high positions and control state power. After the drastic changes in the Soviet Union, except for a few figures such as Gorbachev who withdrew from the center of power, a large number of Soviet cadres became the new dignitaries of Russia, and all kinds of changes in the court were caught off guard.
According to a poster that once circulated on the Russian Internet: "We lost the whole country without a single battle." "The heartache in this is probably only clear to the parties concerned!"