Soviet Collapse
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The Bolshevik take over of the Czarist Regime in 1917 aimed at taking the power from the wealthy elite and distributing amongst the working class. They attempted to do away with the so called social evil of class struggle and form a utopian society. Unfortunately, an utopian society can only exist in utopia. Since this system of governance was against human nature and justice it had to be kept in place by force, violence and repression of human rights. Any dissent from the party line was met with arrest, exile or execution.
Finally in late 1991 Gorbachev resigned as the General Secretary and in December 1991 Boris Yelstin declared that the Soviet Union was no more and replaced the Soviet Flag over the Kremlin with the three stripe white, blue and red Russian flag.
The collapse of the USSR had its roots in an insensitive, confused and often cruel foreign policy. It signaled the end of a brutal regime and an artificial form of governance. It marked the end of an era of grave uncertainty. An era that saw nations fall apart and empires crumble...