notes
sugestive question
would the USSR still be around if Glasnost never ended?
summary
Glasnost strengthened the relationship between East and West
quote
"In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision."
Dalai Lama
- USSR has free speech
- freedom of the media
- people were happy
- people in satellite states spoke out
- disaster for communism
- Change of view of Soviet History
- Stalin is denounced and horrors are brought out
- true communism had not arrived
- wrote of a book called Perestroika 1987
- he admitted that the uprising in Hungary and Czechoslovakia was handled wrong
- after book is made Perestroika uprising all over
- anit-alchoh campan to make more money
- no one likes it
- thought could make quick money everyone just hated him
- his high ranking officials were based on loyalty
- invested in machinery and tool industry
- people hoarded goods black market rose up
- so much pressure in Afghanistan had to leave but leave too late
- too much money spent and Afghanistan damaged greatly
sugestive question
would the USSR still be around if Glasnost never ended?
summary
Glasnost strengthened the relationship between East and West
quote
"In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision."
Dalai Lama