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Benefits of the USSR breaking up - Coggle Diagram
Benefits of the USSR breaking up
Rights gained by the people
LGBT Rights
In 13 out of the 15 post Soviet states, homosexual activity is legal
Lifting of censorship on discussions of past events
Government mistakes
Poor reactions to Chernobyl
Incarceration
Gulags, work camps
Massacres
Katyn Massacre
Political rights
End of the one party rule meant that people are free to form parties as they wish and compete in elections
Women's rights
Women's organisations
Independent women's organizations, a form of activity suppressed in the Soviet era, were formed in large numbers in the 1990s
Political success
Women of Russia party, which won 11 percent of the vote and twenty-five seats in the 1993 national parliamentary elections
The economy
Free market economy was brought in
Gave people the chance to buy products made in foreign countries that they couldn't have had before
People were free to start businesses for profit without too much interference by the government
Foreign capital was allowed to be brought in now
This allowed for more businesses to be set up
This increased competition, helping the economy