Thirty years ago, on December 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev opened the curtain on 74 years of history in a predictable 1 minute and 12 second televised speech: he announced his resignation from the presidency of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), which spelled the end of the sprawling bloc of 15 countries that battled hand in hand with the United States for world leadership during its glory days.
This is the prophetic chronicle of death, which confirms the mandate of the Belavisa Treaty signed 17 days ago by a handful of Presidents of the Republic, who effectively wrote what they demanded in a diplomatic and legal tone, at least since the fall of Berlin. He wall two years ago.
The Soviet Union was born driven by all the important experiences, after going through a stage overcome and buried: the end of the Tsarist era.
Under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin and especially after Joseph Stalin, Stan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan occupied a territory of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan. The area is half the size of the United States.
What’s more: one-sixth of the planet’s occupied land is home to these prosperous peoples, who in the process have managed to free themselves from royal oppression and become the backbone of an expanding economic machine run by party committees and political leaders. totalitarian strategists. . He knows how to transform them into the millions of workers in the emerging industries that are emerging in the world and the workers of the land that will feed them.
The USSR came to life overcoming and burying all the important experiences of the end of the tsarist era.
The Soviet Union was born driven by all the important experiences, after going through a stage overcome and buried: the end of the Tsarist era.
At that time, that was the new life that awaited the Soviets. This is not the time to discuss other horizons: the purges ordered by Stalin were the order of the day.
The allied victory in World War II, in a disturbing entente that united the United States, France, Great Britain and the USSR, led to the USSR becoming one of the two poles of the earth, the merger of the Eastern Bloc , divided by the infamous Berlin Wall has worked with the West for at least 45 years.
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union and those countries that remained behind the so-called Iron Curtain became protagonists in the struggle for world leadership, apart from the space race, the economy and even sports.
But times are passing and socialist models are unaware of or unable to cope with population growth and seek new strategies that allow their people to support themselves, learn and work with dignity.
Leave a Reply