How did the Soviet Union break up?

The reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union are complex.

To put it simply, it wasn't the Soviet people who wanted the USSR to break up, it was the people at the top of the hierarchy who wanted the USSR to break up.

In the Soviet Union, there was a class of people with vested interests.

The Soviet Union had a system of factory directors and managers, and these people, who seized a great deal of economic and political power, formed a large number of real power in the ruling class. (In China, this kind of class is called "eight banners children" or "high cadres children")

A factory, such as the Siberian petrochemical plant, the highest person in charge of the plant director, he has the right to say everything in the big factory, but he retired, only his pension, his son will not get the benefits of the factory directly (except for the deliberate training).

So, this class of people, are thinking about this issue.

The opportunity came. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev instituted reforms that caused a revolt by the defense minister and vice president, among others, and the Soviet Airborne troops were stationed in Moscow. Russian **** and state president Boris Yeltsin risked standing up to the tanks, mobilized the people and dissuaded the Soviet tankmen, the coup attempt was foiled and Gorbachev's presidential powers were temporarily restored.

Gorbachev felt that the Soviet Union had no future and that he had had enough. He, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, Kazakh **** and State President Nazarbayev, Foreign Minister Shevard Zenadze and a few others met and decided that the Soviet Union would be dissolved and that the constituent **** and states could become independent.

There was no democracy in the USSR, and the people, who made up 99% of the population, didn't want the USSR to break up, but they didn't have a say in the matter.

The only people who had a say were Russian President Boris Yeltsin, Kazakh President Nazarbayev, Foreign Minister Shevard Zenadze and a few others. They represent the sons and daughters of the high and mighty, those who were the directors and managers of the plant at the time.

Only after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia and Kazakhstan could become independent, and Yeltsin and Nazarbayev, as presidents of the ****ing country, would have real power.

Only after the collapse of the USSR, people who were factory managers and bank presidents could, with the help of "privatization reforms", turn state-owned enterprises into privately owned companies in a dignified manner. The shares of world-class oil companies, such as Yukos, were in the hands of a private person who, before the collapse of the USSR, had been the director of the state-owned enterprise, and who, for not a single kopecks, owned all the shares of the state-owned enterprise. He owns all the shares at once, without paying a kopeck. Great, even if he dies, his descendants will be able to receive a constant stream of dividends and bonuses from his shares.