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By 1991 - the year of official disintegration - the USSRcame up with indicators of complete degradation and decline in all major areas: economic, ideological, military, infrastructural and managerial.

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Ideology. In 70 years of rule, on one sixth of the land, communist ideology has exhausted itself and completely discredited the basic - initially stillborn - Marxist-Leninist doctrine.

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The crisis of the genre has matured in society: civil society was not simply not formed, but destroyed by the ten-year efforts of the CPSU and the KGB in principle. Any of its manifestations were destroyed at an embryonic level.

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All official civil institutions wore a semi-official, demagogic-sophist discourse.

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Every year, in part because of the economicdegradation, in some republics, interethnic contradictions were exacerbated, which were suppressed by the authorities. Many representatives of national communities became dissidents, were severely persecuted or served terms of imprisonment, such as: Mustafa Dzhemilev, Paruyr Hayrikyan, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Abulfaz Elchibey, Andranik Margaryan.

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Rectification of elementary civil rights and freedoms inThe USSR was the main rule of existence: the ban on traveling abroad, the ban on religious freedom, censorship, oppression of the so-called "guilty peoples": Chechens, Jews, Crimean Tatars, Meskhetian Turks. In the bodies of the KGB, people of Western Ukraine and the Baltic republics always paid special attention.

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Economic + military reasons: since the early 1950s, the USSR has not just got involved in the arms race, it imposed it on the world. And if in the very beginning of the 50s, thanks to the breakthrough in engineering thought in military aviation and the space industry, the USSR managed to get ahead of the rest of the countries left behind by the Iron Curtain, then by the end of the 1970s history turned to the USSR with its back. The country was rapidly degrading, and the curve of its economy swiftly flew to zero to zero, as all efforts were directed to the arms race with the complete decline of scientific and technical, intellectual progress.

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The mid-80s of the last century broughtanother "surprise" of the USSR - the world prices for oil fell sharply: about 10-30 dollars per barrel. In this regard, the country, which was one of the largest oil exporters, entered a deadly tailspin and finally lost its positions both as leader of the socialist camp and as a superpower.

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The economic situation has become catastrophic: the daily shortage of goods of the very first necessity, the food crisis, and the financing-support of "friendly" countries, with the socialist way of development: Cuba, Angola, Vietnam, Laos, North Korea, etc., did not decrease.

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Managerial degradation: in the early 80's in the USSR, among other things, there was also a managerial collapse. The Kremlin elderly people who ruled the country did not understand not only that they were rapidly taking the whole of the USSR to the grave with them, but also that after themselves they did not leave any significant and unconventional individual who could become a crisis manager for the country .

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Party functionaries, who hadthe turn of the era - Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin - were just two sides of one medal thrown up in the air by history, and rates on which, like the eagle or the river, made the country stretching the country in different directions, personal ambitions and interests of numerous close and gray cardinals.

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In the end, the gerontological areopagusdivided into three zones of influence - the State Emergency Committee, a team supporting Yeltsin and Gorbachev's few support. The first and last finally lost both the country and the arms race. However, as time showed, and the average team was not able to change the depressing reality.

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Officially, the USSR ordered a long life twice: December 8, 1991 - the day when Leonid Kravchuk, Boris Yeltsin and Stanislav Shushkevich signed the Belovezhsky conspiracy, and on December 25 of the same year, when Mikhail Gorbachev resigned from the First President of the USSR.