Mikhail Gorbachev, the last secretary of the Russian Communist Party, whose rapid rise to power was the beginning of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, was he a true reformer or a traitor to his country who was exploited by Western circles to dismantle the Soviet Union without the trouble of firing a single bullet or entering into a nuclear war? It has become customary to date the beginnings of change in the Soviet Union with Gorbachev’s rise to power in 1985. Gorbachev himself had no particular reputation as a reformer. Gorbachev was neither a liberal nor a bold social reformer. In fact, he owed his rise to the top to the patronage of Andropov, the senior general secretary of the Communist Party. Within a year of coming to power, Gorbachev was pushing hard for an approach that was very different from the approach that had been followed in the previous two decades. At the 27th Party Congress in 1986, he launched the slogans of perestroika (reconstruction) and glasnost (openness) and launched a campaign for these changes at an important plenum of the Central Committee in January 1987, with the promise of Gorbachev, with a peaceful revolution, allowed journalists for the first time since the mid-1920s to reveal what life in the Soviet Union was really like. Reports emerged of widespread corruption, mafia control, the extent of poverty and prostitution, the deterioration of health services, alarming pollution and massive environmental problems. Gorbachev was widely supported, but at the time there were very few people willing to try to prove that the left should not trust Gorbachev. The Soviet Union tried to introduce what is known as self-sufficient and national state capitalism and to provide a major additional impetus in the West and the Third World to rebuild national industries to suit the requirements of multinational production. There is no doubt that the first element in the collapse of the Soviet Union was the failure of national state capitalism, and it was immediately followed by internal fragmentation. When the elements that make up any large bureaucratic machine lose confidence in their leaders, they turn to attack you with each other in the early days of the Bolshevik Revolution and during the reign of Joseph Stalin. Prepared and presented by: Ibrahim Al-Jarhi If you like the video, don't forget to subscribe to the channel to see a new episode every day Friday at 10 am Cairo time To subscribe to the channel https://www.youtube.com/c/NestProduct... To join and support the channel / @nestproductions Video lists you will like Russia and Ukraine • The Russian-Ukrainian War All the Fuhrer's Men • All the Fuhrer's Men World War II • World War II World War I • World War I Cold War • Cold War Egyptian-Israeli War • Egyptian-Israeli War Historical Figures • Historical Figures Short story • Short story Background music in most episodes from this site https://www.epidemicsound.com/referra... Connect with us on Facebook / nestproductions