End of the cold war
At the end of the Cold War in 1991 some other events happened leading up to that. Gorbachev was the leader of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War; he took over in 1985. He was always know as a reformer so he installed two new policies called Glasnost and Perestroika. Glasnost was the idea of openness, which meant greater acceptance of western ideas entering the USSR. The other policy called Perestroika was used to limit market incentives for Soviet citizens. Gorbachev hoped that these two policies would spark the sluggish economy in the Soviet Union. These new ideas in the USSR from the west gave the people some freedom and the civilians like the freedom they started to receive and these lead to the beginning of the demolition of the Soviet bloc. Poland started the demolition with the electron of a non-communist leader but Gorbachev didn't react to it. Then like dominoes communist nations dictators fell one by one in East Germany they tore down the Berlin Wall communism was overthrown in Czechoslovakia and Hungary too. Then the freedom came to the Soviet Union Latvia, Estonia declared independence and then in December 1991 Ukraine declared independence and the Soviet Union was disbanded. The end of the Cold War was a relief for the whole world because they didn't have to worry about a nuclear war or any others issues that might have occurred between the United States and the USSR.
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