Why Did the USSR Collapse?
Most of those who write about this subject consider that the collapse of the Soviet Union occurred only in 1991, when it officially collapsed and became a group of capitalist states. They therefore search for ways that could bring back the Soviet Union to its previous and glorious state. They talk about the differences between one leader and another—they believe somehow that if Andropov had lived for a longer time, he would have achieved the desired purpose. They talk about the regime that was instituted by Gorbachev in the 1980’s And so on, and so on. In my way of thinking that this way of considering the collapse of the Soviet Union is incorrect, and therefore is not Marxist. It is a sort of worshiping the name of “Soviet Union”. The real collapse of the Soviet Union occurred after March 5, 1953, the day that Stalin died or was killed. I am not talking here about previous enemy conspiracies and opportunist blocs that Lenin and Stalin struggled against — but they did pave the way to s
