What were mail reasons for collapse of USSR?
Overstretch: in the 80’s, the Soviet Union was in the midst of the Afghan War. This was one of many proxy battles it fought with the U.S., and the combined impact likely depleted the government of resources and money that could have been used elsewhere to stimulate growth or encourage flexibility. Additionally, the game of brinksmanship played by President Reagan kept outside pressure on Moscow never to decrease defense spending, which surely had a further drag effect on the budget. Bad Policy & Poor Planning: Soviet planners made disastrous policy choices—from the Virgin Lands program, to the futility of supporting an entire society on slave labor in the gulags, to the sloppiness that resulted in the Chernobyl disaster, the USSR was replete with financially ruinous events that could have been prevented. The Communist system was fundamentally unsustainable. Corruption: this shouldn’t need much expanding upon, but outside Moscow everyone from police to border guards to troops were rekno
