In December 1991, the largest state on the planet broke up - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). In its place formed 15 sovereign countries. Disputes about what caused this event and what is more in the collapse of the USSR — positive or negative?
What are the pros of the collapse of the USSR
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was an artificial entity. The republics included in it were too different. These differences concerned literally everything: the level of development, the mentality of peoples, languages, religions. Such a state can be durable and united only under the conditions of some important unifying factor.
For example, during the years of World War II, all citizens of the USSR had to fight with a common external enemy - Nazi Germany.
In peacetime, for the USSR, such a unifying factor was the ideological and geopolitical struggle with the bloc of Western countries led by the United States. During this struggle, the Soviet Union supported the so-called "countries of people's democracy" around the world, spending enormous amounts of money on it. In addition, even greater funds were spent on maintaining the balance of arms with the NATO bloc. There was a very real threat of nuclear war. Therefore, the collapse of the USSR and the rejection of communist ideology led to the fact that the threat of a large-scale war with the use of weapons of mass destruction sharply decreased, and this is an indisputable plus.
In the USSR, the economy was forced to "serve politics", and this led to a shortage of consumer goods - products, clothes, shoes, household appliances. After the collapse of the USSR, the concept of "commodity shortage" quickly disappeared.
Residents of the USSR could not travel freely around the world. A trip abroad required the collection of a mass of documents, the passage of various commissions. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, traveling abroad to get acquainted with the sights became commonplace for millions of its former citizens. This can only be treated positively.
