Row 65224

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This is a long list of massive questions that would require incredibly detailed answers to do proper justice. I'll try to answer some of these, but I'm on my phone and I should be clear that these are not substitutes for proper research.

The USSR was starting to stagnate under an economy that was sluggish and unresponsive. Common consumer goods were frequently out of stock and hoarding was common. Some estimates put the black market at 10% of the Soviet economy. The government bureaucracy was massive and both inefficient and oppressive.

Gorbachev, general secretary of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union, tried to solve these issues with political and economic reforms. The political reforms were meant to democratize the USSR and open things up a bit. It made it possible for the people to criticize the government. The economic reforms were basically the worst parts of capitalism and communism combined. The people were already unhappy with the way things were. This gave them something even bigger to be unhappy about. Throw in the failed war in Afghanistan and greater access to information about what it was like in the rest of the world, and you've got a recipe for people wanting (and being able to bring about) change.

The rest of the Warsaw Pact was not especially loyal to the USSR, since they were essentially vassal states of the USSR who were invaded by the USSR whenever their governments weren't doing communism "the right way" according to Moscow. On top of all this, the Cold War was *old*. The principal of mutually assured destruction lasted so long that people began to get comfortable, in a sense. The threat of NATO/capitalism wasn't really credible anymore.

So all the internal and external forces that were helping keep the Communist Party in power, the Warsaw Pact together, and the Soviet Union from collapsing just weren't strong enough anymore.

Germany is this commitment despite being broken in half because both NATO and the USSR saw the brown halves as bulwarks against the other, so they invested heavily into rebuilding it. German industry was essentially wiped out after WW2, but that meant that when it was rebuilt from the ground up, it was all modern compared to other nations in Europe that didn't need to, and couldn't afford to, do such a complete overhaul. Add to that being one of the most populated nations in Europe, despite the war, and you've got good prospects for rebounding 70 years later.

Reintegrating East and West Germany is something I don't know too much about, but East Germany never really had much in the way of autonomy, so my guess is that it was largely subsumed into the West German administration/bureaucracy.

I know even less about Yugoslavia except that it was a religious, ethnic, and cultural mishmash, it was a kingdom for like 20 years before the Nazis invaded, and then led by the resistance leader, Tito, from 1944 to 1980. Another guess, but I've heard that the nation was largely built around Tito holding it together. After his death, only the threat of the Soviet armies were probably the only thing holding things together, so when it collapsed in 1991, Yugoslavia followed in 1992.

It's probably worth a Wikipedia dive to get a better coverage of events, but I hope that helps.

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