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Disadvantages of the USSR breaking up - Coggle Diagram
Disadvantages of the USSR breaking up
Women's rights
Women had much better job protection in the USSR
A woman could go on maternity leave for 4 years and her job would be kept for her, with the same pay and position
Abuse
Sociological surveys show that sexual harassment and violence against women increased at all levels of society in the 1990s
Sex trafficking increased
Legal rights
The Constitution of the USSR guaranteed equality for women
Made the post Soviet states weaker
Broke up into 15 states
This made the states weaker because especially the smaller states have small economies that aren't able to take care of their citizens
Numerous conflicts have erupted as a result of the chaos that came with the dissolution
Russia-Chechnya tensions
The Chechen wars
Armenian-Azerbaijani tensions
Nagorno-Karabach
Welfare
People had a right to many things that aren't guaranteed by most capitalistic states
Health
Housing
Education
Nutrition
Full employment
There were issues with the loss of savings of certain kind not being protected well during the dissolution
Pensions
There were issues with the rights veterans had under Soviet times from fighting in wars, which were taken away now that the Soviet government no longer existed
Soviet-Afghan war