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Fall of the USSR - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Life-long tenure
      - Continuous corruption
      - Bureaucratism
    - - Giving power to local governments
      - Opening up press
      - Less control to the army
      - Policies that suppress the alliance's sovereignty
- - - - Over-extension: Too much military spending
      - Investing too much on heavy industry project, like space race (Wanting to strengthen people's belief of national pride and collective development to bring higher productivity. But belittled the importance of light industry and people's life quality.
      - Too much investment in African Countries
    - - The controlled market lacks economic vitality: Lacks competition, freely-explorative tech innovation.
      - Over-dependent on the wisdom of the heads( The Soviet Union had a centrally planned economy in which the state controlled all economic activities, including production, distribution, and pricing decisions. Central planners lack accurate information about consumer demand.), leading to some undesired investments. Lot of money, resources, and productivity is serious wasted. In contrast, capitalism-based countries can seek ideal through the proof of market.
      - Economic productivity is over-reliant on faith of communism. Due to the absence of private ownership, individual companies becomes production unit or tools.
      - "dark" economic activities
      - Lacks free trade, cross country economic alliance