1, Gorbachev has always been very controversial. The Western world praised him more and believed that he ended the confrontation between the two camps and eliminated the dark clouds of war. Some Russians and Chinese believe that Gorbachev ruined the Soviet Union.
2. Gorbachev is an elite cultivated by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for many years. His loyalty to the organization is undoubtedly unquestionable, but he has conflicts with the Soviet Union's secret police and terrorist autocratic rule. When Gorbachev came to power, he began to reform. On the one hand, he had to maintain the system and continue to operate, and on the other hand, he had to improve the system. However, the two were fundamentally contradictory, because the code for the operation of the Soviet system was strict control. Once the Soviet system is loosened, the result will inevitably be that it will be completely out of control.
3. Gorbachev was an enlightened faction of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and was very dissatisfied with bureaucracy. One of the motivations for Gorbachev to reform is actually anti-corruption. However, since corruption in the Soviet Union has become a structural system, the opening of the market economy of has caused a geographic increase in the amount of corruption, and the result is that the more you resist, the more you become corruption.
4. The biggest public grievance in the late Soviet Union was the economy, and there was a frequent shortage of materials. If the former Soviet Union's powerful PUA model and the public continue to Stockholm syndrome, they can also tighten their belts and endure hardships. But Gorbachev has reformed. After the people taste the taste of free economy, they must not tolerate hard life. In this case, give them a little spark and the people will overturn the table.
5. No matter what identity Gorbachev is, he is first and foremost an individual. This is very important because too many people will forget the identity of human beings after being trapped under some ideology . After Gorbachev came to power, he made it clear that the Soviet Union no longer used nuclear threats and blackmails, and refused to use this way of destroying the earth to intimidate the world. From this point of view, Gorbachev still has basic humanity and his conscience is still there.
6. Gorbachev believes that reform will create the middle class (the same is true in the Western world), and the middle class tends to be stable and will not support fierce change. But he did not expect that when fierce change came, the middle class did not object, because fierce change would also protect the vested interests of the middle class. The middle class is worried that under the Soviet system, vested interests will actually be in danger and may disappear one day.
7. There has always been a problem with the Soviet Union, that is, the children of many big names have gone to the United States, such as the daughter of Stalin and the son of Khrushchev . This fact has a great impact on the psychology of the Soviet people, and they have doubts about the Soviet system. After Gorbachev's reform, more Soviets had the opportunity to go out, and it was difficult to stop the car as soon as this opening was opened, and the result was of course a collapse. If we want to not collapse, the Soviet economy must be very good, making the Soviets feel that it is not much better to make money outside than inside, but obviously this has not been achieved.