A Letter About the Fall of The Soviet Union

Dear comrade, I apologize for the fact that our beloved Soviet society no longer exists. On the Christmas Day of 1991, our sturdy red flag, its majestic hammer and scythe gold badge flew above the Kremlin. Prior to this pessimistic day, 11 of the 15 Soviet republics that once formed a strong, prosperous and prosperous Soviet Union, they will no longer join the Soviet Union and will establish independence, at the Almaty meeting in Kazakhstan We announced the British Commonwealth countries.

That was it. Twenty five years have passed, there are supporters in the former Soviet Union. The last Soviet-led Mikhail Gorbachev recently talked about "betrayal" of people who collapsed the Soviet Union. President Vladimir Putin of Russia expressed it as 'the greatest geopolitical disaster of the century.' Obviously even people outside Russia have this desire. As the Washington Post pointed out, in a recent survey by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank, more than half of respondents from the former Soviet Union believe that in some cases it is preferable to return to the authoritarian regime Revealed. development of

Twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world has become more free and open. The collapse of the Soviet Union, from the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe buffers to Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, the Far East, has brought about a series of political and economic advances that were rare in human history. According to Freedom House, there are 69 election democracy in 1990, today there are 115, an increase of over 60%. In dozens of countries, the centrally planned economy constrained innovation and entrepreneurial spirit. Today, the liberalization of the economy is not perfect, but it created new opportunities and income increases, which seemed to have been unimaginable over 20 years ago. However, in addition to these advances, perhaps the most important developments brought about by the collapse of the Soviet Union are often forgotten - today's world is clearly safer.