Why was Russia so weak after the disintegration of the Soviet Union?

At the end of the 20th century, the political map of the world fluctuated violently, the Soviet Union disintegrated, and the eastern European countries changed colors frequently, which brought the Soviet Union and eastern Europe back into people's sight. After "ten days that shocked the world", the Soviet Union experienced "ten months that shocked the world". 199 165438 On February 26th, supreme soviet of the ussr finally declared that the Soviet Union no longer existed in the form of a constitution.

At the same time, Yeltsin declared the Soviet Union illegal, sealed up Soviet buildings and banned all Soviet activities.

Surprisingly, however, all this happened in such a short time. Why did Gorbachev's reform destroy the Soviet Union? Is the disintegration of the Soviet Union an economic reform or a political reform? Soviet citizens have accumulated 70 years of wealth, and the total industrial and agricultural output value is as high as 3 trillion US dollars a year (1980). Why did it suddenly disappear?

What is even more surprising is that where did the huge assets of the Soviet Union fall to the ground?

Why did shock therapy, which achieved great success in Poland, be used in Russia, but it caused the extreme recession of the whole national economy?

Section 1 Problems left over from Soviet economy

As we all know, Lenin was the first reformer in the Soviet Union.

Although capitalism in wartime showed great superiority in the armed intervention of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, it hurt the interests of farmers, so a peasant storm occurred in 192 1.

Lenin urgently ordered the regulation of the national economy and the implementation of the new economic policy, and the Soviet economy was restored.

Next is Stalin's stage.

Lenin's new economic policy could have lasted longer, but the complicated international situation forced Stalin to give it up: "When we don't need it, we throw it away."

Stalin's decisive choice to abandon the new economic policy was based on the stormy China: "China has no heavy industry and no military industry. Now whoever is happy can ravage him. "

China's experience made Stalin realize the importance of developing heavy industry and military industry, so the Soviet Union put heavy industry and military industry in the first place of economic development, but it was understandable at that time, because the Soviet Union was surrounded by neighboring capitalist countries after all, and there was a restless Germany next to it.

However, the problem appeared: because the highly centralized planned economy system at that time was too perfect, the average annual economic growth rate of the first two five-year plans of the Soviet Union all exceeded 20% (the third five-year plan was interrupted by war, the western Soviet Union lost 3.7% every year, totaling about 20%, while the actual average annual loss of the Soviet Union should be around 7% ~ 10%, accounting for about 40% of the economy), and the total industrial output value of the Soviet Union jumped. In the early stage of socialism, strong productive forces appeared. Of course, this is an unprecedented economic growth brought about by the people's extremely high enthusiasm for production.

In fact, the most outstanding contribution of planned economy in that era came from its outstanding performance in the war and played a decisive role in resisting the global economic crisis of 1929. The relatively closed market (or no market at all) avoids the unprecedented "shearing" action of international bankers. In this global economic recession, the United States suffered the most, with nearly $300 billion in assets flowing into the pockets of international bankers.

At the same time, however, under the guidance of the first five-year plan, the maverick Soviet economy advanced by leaps and bounds, and the Soviet Union established a relatively complete heavy industry system. Moreover, foreign capital, technology and talents soon began to turn to the Soviet Union to find a way out because capital was accumulated by the savings of their own people, effectively avoiding risks.

It's just that Stalin didn't take advantage of this favorable opportunity to attract a lot of foreign investment, or he came forward in the name of the government to absorb the high-quality assets of the United States and Western Europe at a low price, but he still made great achievements.

In World War II, the industrial capacity of the Soviet Union was even more incisive. The combined industrial capacity of Germany and Italy, which invaded western Europe except Britain, was less than half that of the Soviet Union. The huge production capacity of the Soviet Union provided him with enough tanks, planes and artillery in the war, which was the sword for the Soviet Union to win.

After the war, Stalin became more convinced that the wartime * * * policy was a one-sided understanding of the correct and convenient way of * * * productism.

But Stalin knew very well that he had to take some kind of reform to the Soviet Union, which was not economic, but political, that is, to reform Soviet bureaucracy as I said earlier, but this reform ended in failure.

The next one is Khrushchev.

There was another episode before Khrushchev. Soviet President Marelinko, as the chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers, tried to promote reform and raise workers' wages, but Khrushchev quickly stopped the counterattack and firmly controlled the regime.

However, although Khrushchev criticized Stalin from beginning to end, he changed his medicine, and the country still implemented a highly centralized planned economic system and Stalin-Soviet model.

Khrushchev was the only general secretary in Soviet history who was ousted. In other words, Khrushchev was forced to "step down voluntarily" and then led the Soviet Union to Brezhnev.

During Brezhnev's period, a series of talents, such as kosygin and shelepin, presidents of the important Soviet Council of Ministers, pushed the reform of the Soviet Union's new economic system, which was a famous "troika" in history. At first, the reform was extremely successful, and the Soviet economy improved greatly, maintaining a double-digit high-speed growth.

Comparison of the growth rate of national income and industrial output value between the United States and the Soviet Union (average annual) (%)

The Soviet Union and the United States

1929- 1932 16.2 22 - 10.7% -8.2%

1933- 1937 16.2 24 ? -2. 1%

1938- 1940 10.0 19 ? 0.8

194 1- 1945 -3.7 - 10 ? 4.2

1946- 1950 14.6 2 1.2 ? 4.5

195 1- 1960 10.2 13 3.3 2.7

196 1- 1970 7. 1 14. 1 3.9 1. 1

197 1- 1975 5.7 15.2 1.8 1.6

1976- 1980 4.2 8.8 4.5 3.9

As can be seen from the picture, Brezhnev's early Soviet economy was very good. However, everything was destroyed in the Prague Spring. When Soviet leaders realized that if each country or ally formulated a separate economic system, the interests of the Soviet Union would be threatened and the confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States would be at a disadvantage, the Soviet Union began to toughen up and its own reforms were destroyed along with the Prague Spring.

Andropov is indeed a doer. He understood how powerful the Soviet bureaucracy was. He is determined to make great efforts to rectify corrupt officials in the Soviet Union. During his two years in power, Neanderthal andropov actually singled out thousands of corrupt officials, who eroded the wealth of the Soviet people and made his peasants complain all day. However, there is nothing andropov can do because his health problems are too serious. He stayed on the throne of general secretary for less than two years and gave it to Chernenko. Chernenko's physical condition is not much better. It can be said that during his administration, he basically did nothing and had no political achievements, and he soon died of illness.

The next one is Gorbachev. Young people in the Soviet Union put Chernenko's death and Gorbachev's coming to power together and shouted "Hula", which is enough to show how light Chernenko is in the hearts of the Soviets.

The Soviet Union and the United States

197 1- 1975 5.7 15.2 1.8 1.6

1976- 1980 4.2 8.8 4.5 3.9

This is a huge problem faced by Gorbachev. As we can see from the table, the economy has started to slow down obviously. At the same time, the "golden age" of European and American countries began, and the United States organized a counterattack against Gorbachev on many fronts. Now, the question on Gorbachev's desk is:

1, how to deal with ethnic relations, that is, how to deal with the relationship between the Soviet Union and China, and prevent separatists and ultra-Democrats from trying to split the country;

2. How to ease the contradiction with other countries (such as China and Albania);

3. How to establish a new order to replace the original Stalin-Soviet economic model;

How to deal with those powerful bureaucrats?

In the second quarter, the Soviet economic reform-the fuse

Gorbachev's economic reform is undoubtedly a failure, but this is only a conclusion based on social practice. The question is why Gorbachev's economic reform failed, and what brought down the Soviet economy?

Let's listen to some recent comments by Russian government officials and political elites on the reasons for the disintegration of the Soviet Union: social reform should be gradual; The final disintegration of the Soviet Union was not the failure of ideology or one-party system, but the failure of leadership policy. Su * * * is rigid in thinking, stuck in the past, divorced from the masses, only engaged in self-destruction, not seeking self-improvement; Gorbachev did not understand the role of the Soviet Union in safeguarding its survival and development, and pursued the wrong reform route, which weakened the leadership of the Party and led to the disaster of national subjugation.

As we all know, the confrontation policy between the United States and the Soviet Union during Brezhnev's period and the massive increase in military expenditure brought a heavy burden to the Soviet economy. Of course, there is a more important one. Perhaps no one thought that the high welfare policy was only an important factor that dragged down the Soviet economy.

Let's take a look at 1980 economic comparison between the United States and the Soviet Union:

Population: Soviet Union 264.5 million, United States 222.6 million.

Gross national income: US$ 705.4 billion, US$ 6,543.8+005.28 billion, which is 67% of that of the United States.

Per capita national income: US$ 2,667 in the Soviet Union; 4730 dollars is 56% of that of the United States.

Steel output: 654.38+0.48 million tons in the Soviet Union and 654.38+0.038 million tons in the United States, which is 654.38+0.43% of the United States.

Power generation: Soviet Union 65.438+29.5 million kWh; The United States has 247.5 billion degrees, which is 52% of the United States.

Oil production: 603 million tons in the Soviet Union; The United States has 430 million tons, which is 140% of the United States.

Natural gas production: 406 billion cubic meters in the Soviet Union; The United States has 600 billion cubic meters, which is 67.7% of the United States.

Commercial coal: 653 million tons of Soviet Union; The United States has 784 million tons, which is 83.3% of the United States.

Production of family cars: 6,543,800+0,330 in the Soviet Union; 6.58 million vehicles in the United States; It is 20.2% of the United States.

Plastics: 3.6 million tons in the Soviet Union, 6.5438+038600 tons in the United States and 26% in the Soviet Union.

Chemical fiber: Soviet Union1176,000 tons, the United States 3.9 million tons, accounting for 30% of the United States.

Fertilizer: 24.8 million tons in the Soviet Union and 22.4 million tons in the United States. The Soviet Union is 1 1 1% of the United States.

Cement: Soviet Union1250,000 tons, American 77 million tons, Soviet Union 162%.

Textiles: 7 1 100 million square meters in the Soviet Union, 4 billion square meters in the United States, and 0/.78% in the Soviet Union.

Combine harvester: USSR 1 13000, USA 3 18000. The Soviet Union is 35.5% of the United States.

Tractors: 557,000 in the Soviet Union, 270,000 in the United States and 206% in the Soviet Union.

Grain output: Soviet Union 18965438+ 10,000 tons, US 263.7 million tons, Soviet Union 7 1.7%.

The output of meat products: the Soviet Union 6.5438+0.5 million tons, the United States 26.7 million tons, and the Soviet Union 56.2%.

Output of dairy products: 90.6 million tons in the Soviet Union, 58.3 million tons in the United States, and 0/55.4% in the Soviet Union/KLOC.

Cotton output: 3.32 million tons in the Soviet Union, 2.38 million tons in the United States, and 0/39.5% in the Soviet Union.

Catch: 9.2 million tons in the Soviet Union, 3.5 million tons in the United States and 262.9% in the Soviet Union.

Merchant tonnage (registered tonnage): 22.262 million tons in the Soviet Union, 0.6/0.88 million tons in the United States and 0 1.37.5% in the Soviet Union.

(The above options are marked with red and yellow, and those behind the United States are marked with blue, and those less than half of the United States are marked with blue. )

Although the indicators of the Soviet Union accounted for more than two-thirds of those of the United States at that time, the gross national product (GNP) and per capita GDP were far lower than those of the United States because of its larger population. In this case, the implementation of high welfare, the growth rate of high welfare even exceeded the economic growth rate, which became another important factor in the economic collapse of the Soviet Union:

"The economic structure with the arms industry as the core accounts for about 1/4 of the national budget every year.

1986, Gorbachev put forward a strategic plan to accelerate the national economic development at the 26th Congress of the Soviet Union. The core of this plan is still to give priority to the rapid development of heavy industry, especially the development strategy of extensive economic with the arms industry as the core, and concentrate all manpower, material resources and financial resources to expand armaments. It is reported that about 40% of Soviet resources are used for military production. The output value of military industry accounts for about 1/4 of GDP. Nearly half of Soviet mechanical products are directly or indirectly used in military production. According to the disclosure made by former Foreign Minister Shevardnadze at the 28th Congress of the Soviet Union in July, 1990, the annual military expenditure of the Soviet Union accounts for about 1/4 of its national budget, which is about11500 million rubles. According to the statistics of the London Institute of Strategic Studies, the Soviet military expenditure in 1989 was119.2 billion US dollars. So in the 1990s, the economy of the Soviet Union could no longer be maintained and completely collapsed. The Soviet Union, which has long competed with the United States for world hegemony and conducted an arms race, has reduced the United States from the largest creditor country in the world after the war to the largest debtor country. But at the same time, it also dragged myself down.

High welfare made the economic downturn worse, and the inefficient industrial base dragged down the Soviet Union.

As we all know, the economic situation of the Soviet Union was very poor in the 1980s. Many scholars often only emphasize the rigidity of the Soviet planned economic system, the excessive development of the national defense industry and the backward technical level of the civilian industry, but few people pay attention to the comprehensive welfare system, high welfare and high consumption level of the Soviet Union, which are also important reasons for the decline of the Soviet economy.

Since the Khrushchev era, the Soviet Union has continuously improved the level of national welfare; In the Brezhnev era, due to the growing social discontent, there was only "spending money to buy stability". Therefore, by the end of the 1970s, the living standard of the Soviet people had reached a fairly high level, with sufficient supply of goods and low prices. A large number of new houses have been issued, durable consumer goods such as televisions, refrigerators and washing machines have spread rapidly, and people's savings are also increasing. At that time, the purchasing power of the Soviets was almost equivalent to that of China people today.

However, although this high welfare is the gospel of the people, it is the bad news of the Soviet economy. Because the inefficient economic base of the Soviet Union can only cope with low income and low consumption, it cannot support this high welfare for a long time. Under the socialist system, because there is no competitive pressure, although the welfare and education level have been improved, it will not correspondingly improve the labor productivity of the whole society. It only encourages more people to move towards relaxed and clean jobs, resulting in a large number of redundant white-collar jobs and lax work discipline, while blue-collar jobs are seriously short of staff. Therefore, the longer the era of high welfare, the more severe the consumption of Soviet economic strength. So in the late 1980s, the Soviet Union was heavily in debt and could no longer afford such high welfare. As a result, the shortage of commodities is becoming more and more serious, inflation is rising, economic growth is stagnant, and the economic situation is obviously deteriorating.

In fact, the Soviet Union implemented the policy of giving priority to heavy industry, low income and low consumption, and the economy did not collapse. It is only because of the high welfare that has been implemented for 20 years since Brezhnev's era that the economy is in desperate situation. Under this policy, it is beyond our power to maintain an economic structure that focuses on heavy industry and military industry and has high welfare at the same time. The' overdraft' of national strength will lead to economic crisis sooner or later. "

Now, the Soviet Union has been unable to implement the high welfare policy, but people's discontent has begun to spread.

Gorbachev's biggest mistake was that the reform was too radical, and he rushed to break the old order before the new order was established, leading to social chaos. It was at this time that the black market in the Soviet Union appeared. They sold grain and industrial products at high prices, making government supervision more and more difficult.

More importantly, Gorbachev pushed the threshold of openness too high. Soon, many "illegal" foreign radio stations broke into the Soviet Union, trumpeting American democracy and economic development. As a result, while the Soviets envied the rich life of Americans, they were disappointed with the Soviet * * * production party.

Does the government invest too much in the people? Yes, there is this factor, but more importantly, the funds invested by the government have been deducted at all levels, and at the grassroots level, I am afraid there will not be much.

After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russia's economy has failed to catch up, but why do Russian people still not support the Russian * * * Production Party? Quite simply, it is because they are completely disappointed with the producers of * * *, and the official reason for this disappointment is "high capital". Of course, this is just a nice noun, but it is actually corruption.

At this time, the most important anti-Soviet storm began.

Section III Financial War: Aim at the Soviet Union!

Paul Volcker put forward the theory of "controlled disintegration of world economy" 1978+065438 on June 9th.

The question is, who is the solution? How to disintegrate?

Of course, the heavily indebted third world countries bear the brunt, followed by the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

After the US dollar and the British pound get rid of the "gold standard" completely, capitalists can safely use the efficient "meat grinder" of "inflation".

After the interest rates of the US dollar and the British pound soared, the huge debts of the third world countries were squeezed by such amazing "usury" and were destined to become the meat in the capitalist meat grinder.

Of course, the first goal is not the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, but Japan.

After World War II, Japan rose rapidly with strong foreign investment and its own soft power. The booming Japanese economy has made the confidence of the Japanese people unprecedentedly high. When Japan's gross national product exceeds half that of the United States, the Japanese people are boiling. But capitalists are timid. If Japan continues to develop, the yen will inevitably hit the dollar, causing irreparable losses to their interests. So they dropped the financial nuclear bomb of "stock index put futures" in Tokyo stock market. Japan suffered heavy losses and corpses were everywhere. Within a month, thousands of people committed suicide and jumped off buildings.

It's the turn of the Soviet Union.

The financial oligarch Soros, together with former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Walker, Vice President of Citibank Anu Rudin and Harvard University Professor Jeffrey Sachs, concocted a "shock therapy" that killed Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in one blow. Soros himself summed up this therapy like this:

I think it is necessary to show that changes in the political system will lead to economic improvement. Poland is a place worth trying. I have prepared a series of extensive economic reform measures, including three components: monetary tightening, structural adjustment and debt restructuring. I think it is better to accomplish three goals at the same time than to implement them separately. I advocate macroeconomic debt and stock swap.

Adjusting the industrial structure is equivalent to comprehensive surgery in macroeconomic order, but at the same time, it is equivalent to refusing to give blood to patients after major surgery. The final outcome is, of course, the complete disintegration of the economy, the serious decline in production, the plummeting living standards of the people, the closure of industrial enterprises, the unemployment of a large number of workers and the intensification of social unrest.

Gorbachev's economic reform has brought unprecedented chaos, and the Soviet economy has indeed been "impacted" to a great extent.

The reform has brought more problems: the influence of capitalists has greatly increased, and it has reached the point where it can compete with the government; Due to the decline in living standards, the * * * party regime has become increasingly unpopular; Corruption is prevalent and black markets abound; Capital and wealth are all transferred to corrupt officials and capitalists, and the rights of the government are further weakened.

Let's look at a report:

The Truth of the Soviet Union's $27.5 trillion Missing

If you have never heard of the name leo wanta, please don't be ashamed, because you should be ashamed of which western news media claims to be the freest in the world. This is an ongoing story, which has caused a great uproar in the international financial and diplomatic circles from Singapore to Paris, but the mainstream western media has remained incredibly silent.

This is not an ordinary financial event. If the problem gets out of control, the financial system all over the world will face a credit collapse!

This is not a small sum, it involves a huge wealth of up to $27.5 trillion. If interest and return on investment are included, the total amount is as high as $70 trillion, equivalent to 30 times of China's GDP!

This will be a shocking case affecting major countries and international banks in the world.

In May and June, 2006, the international financial market fluctuated violently because a huge sum of $4.5 trillion was secretly remitted from Switzerland to the United States to settle the case. Such a huge capital transfer caused the crisis of dollar liquidity shortage in the world financial market, which directly led to the collapse of the global stock market and commodity market (including gold and silver) in May and June 2006.

Who the hell is Vanta? How did he own $27.5 trillion in wealth? Isn't the richest man in the world worth more than $50 billion? How can anyone have more than 500 times more wealth than Bill Gates?

When the international media hype that Bill Gates, worth $50 billion, is the richest man in the world, if you believe it, you will be fooled. On the familiar so-called rich list, you can't find those super-rich people who can't see the way, because they have already firmly controlled the major western media.

Wanta's true identity is President Reagan's most trusted financial war expert. He is a senior official of the US Treasury, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In the 1980s, Wanta was directly ordered by President Reagan to launch a secret financial war aimed at subverting the Soviet ruble. He founded the "New Republican Financial Group" in Wisconsin, with a working capital of only $65,438+7,000. However, after the injection of funds from secret overseas accounts in the United States, Wanta's business grew bigger and bigger. By June of 1990, Wanta had completed the high-profit transaction of buying 1 4 billion roubles for $5 billion at twice the price of the black market (28 roubles1USD), thanks to his accomplices in the Soviet Union. 199 1 year 1 month and February, Wanta shorted 2000 tons of gold on the London Gold Exchange. The Soviet economy, which was already weak, relied on the export of gold to support its life. The collapse of gold prices nailed the last nail to the coffin lid of the Soviet Union.

Wanta's secret operation is called "the big ruble scam".

In the years after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Vanta and other senior experts in the American financial war cooperated with the corrupt forces within the former Soviet Union to plunder the national wealth of the former Soviet Union. At one time, the situation was so absurd that Jeffrey Sachs, an American economist, directly helped Yeltsin to amend the presidential decree. American lawyer Jonathan Hay personally formulated many Russian legal provisions and $ TERM government regulations. Lawrence Summers of the US Treasury even gave detailed instructions on how to formulate and implement economic policies in a letter to the Russian Deputy Minister of Finance. Under the "meticulous care" of "American doctors", the fate of the Russian economy can be imagined.

The winter of 199 1 is extremely harsh for the Russian people. The body of the Russian economy, which had suffered serious blood loss, was run over by the "wealth meat grinder" started by international financiers, and the life savings of a large number of mainstream people in the former Soviet Union were wiped out overnight. University professors, doctors, officers and engineers have taken to the cold streets to sell all kinds of low-priced goods, and some people even have to beg. Gorbachev even had to leave the venue secretly in advance when attending the West Asia Peace Seminar in Madrid in June, because his Russian delegation could not afford hotel accommodation.

Where is the huge national wealth accumulated by the Soviet people in 70 years? Is it true that the Soviet economy has long been "insolvent", as western economists have said? Will people's wealth really "evaporate" without a trace?

In fact, in hyperinflation, wealth has not evaporated, but has shifted. Wanta's $27.5 trillion is one of the destinations of the wealth "evaporated" by the people of the former Soviet Union.

It is completely different from the situation that poor countries and weak countries were unable to resist western colonial aggression in history. The former Soviet Union had a military force so powerful that the United States could not sleep. It is the first time in human history that the whole country has been completely looted by external forces while its military strength is still quite strong.

The great destructive power of the financial war is no less than the loss of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War. The difference is that the great cost of the Great Patriotic War brought the world superpower status, and the fiasco of the financial war led to the disintegration of the country and the long-term economic recession. The destruction of the Soviet Union by the war lasted only four years, and the socio-economic disaster caused by the financial collapse was close to 16.

At the same time, some reactionary radio stations and newspapers trumpeted the tyranny and corruption of the * * * production party government and called on the Soviet people to "regain their freedom and democracy", which led to unprecedented social chaos in the Soviet Union.

At this time, 1923 hyperinflation in Germany reappeared in the Soviet Union, the ruble depreciated, prices soared, and people's purchasing power fell sharply.

At the same time, the deadliest financial blow began.

First, the capitalists threw gold wildly, which made the Soviet Union's finance, which exported gold to win foreign exchange, into crisis. Then, the fall in oil prices caused a devastating blow to the already fragile economy of the Soviet Union. In addition, agricultural crops failed year after year, layers of corruption, black market prevailed, military expenditure was huge, and Soviet finance completely collapsed.

At this time, Gorbachev made another major mistake and completely destroyed the Soviet Union.

The fourth quarter, political system reform-dig your own grave

Gorbachev made a big mistake in economic reform, and at the critical moment of social disorder, he made another big mistake, trying to promote economic reform with political reform.

The total denial of Stalin once again blocked Gorbachev himself, and then Yeltsin and others began to attack Gorbachev.

Gorbachev began "the most radical reform". When people read Gorbachev's political reform charter carefully, they suddenly find that it is exactly the same as the parliamentary system that has been popular in Western Europe and the United States for hundreds of years.

Soon, the all-Soviet general election began.

Surprisingly, the leaders of some important states of the CPSU, such as Moscow and Leningrad, were stolen by militants, and the Soviet Union was at a political disadvantage. Although Gorbachev was still elected president of the Soviet Union, his power was not as good as before.

In this way, Gorbachev began an important step of digging his own grave-realizing the transfer of power center.

Encouraged by Yeltsin and external capitalist forces, Gorbachev made a decision to change the responsibilities of the Soviet People's Congress and formally handed over the power center to the Supreme Soviet.

In this way, the influence of the * * * production party was further weakened, and Gorbachev would never have thought that the Supreme Soviet at this time was Yeltsin's world.

Gorbachev is too open. Due to "political democracy", a large number of documents in the early Soviet Union were declassified, and many materials that were not conducive to the Soviet Union were widely circulated, including the Katyn forest incident, which led to the intensification of people's distrust of the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union became increasingly unfavorable in the subsequent elections.

Yeltsin moved to the center of power.

At this point, the "traditional" elites of the Soviet * * * production party finally saw Yeltsin's intentions, so they immediately took action and prepared to make a final effort to save the Soviet Union.

199 1 August 18, the coup officially began. This is the famous "August 19" incident.

However, due to the "total denial of Stalin", the corruption of the Soviet Union, the failure of reform, and the use of the Soviet news vacuum by western radio stations to publicize reactionary news, the people's political parties lost the support of the people. This is really a big joke.

With the failure of the "August 19th" coup, the disintegration of the Soviet Union is a foregone conclusion.

But it cannot be said that the Soviet Union still has one last chance: the National People's Congress.

After Gorbachev's political reform, the Soviet People's Congress handed over power to the Supreme Soviet. Now that the Soviet Union is in crisis, most of the deputies to the Soviet People's Congress support the Soviet Union. The chairman of the Soviet People's Congress suggested that Gorbachev convene the "Special People's Congress of Soviet Socialism and the League of Nations" in order to regain the rights taken away by the Supreme Soviet (Yeltsin) and complete the unfinished task of the "August 19th" coup.

However, Gorbachev did not give this order in the end.

On February 26th, 65438, Gorbachev announced to all the Soviet people that the Soviet Union no longer existed, and suggested that the Soviet Union should disintegrate on its own, the Soviet Union completely collapsed, and its economy was looted by the powerful funds of foreign capitalists.

First of all, due to hyperinflation, the price of daily necessities soared, mass famine began to appear, and people were forced to sell their property cheaply. Foreign forces took the opportunity to buy these high-quality assets cheaply, and then moved to Western Europe and the United States, completing a "successful" robbery.