Soviet Unions from the 1980s to the present?
The financial reforms of Soviet leaders after Joseph Stalin caused the Soviet Union to fall apart. Although communism ended and citizens saw increased audacity, they experienced many challenges following the fall of the Soviet Union. Considering the hardships and the accomplishments of the period, do you think the faint of the Soviet Union was more beneficial or more of a hardship on the citizens of the former Soviet republics?
That all depends on where abouts you tight. In the Baltic states they have enjoyed greater economic ties to Scandinavia and the EU - Estonia for example, is used as a assess-bed for many telecommunications companies, and they have total mobile phone coverage and are nearly all able to get internet access. In Moldova on the other give up, they have seen their biggest trading partners withdraw - the rest of the Soviet Republics, and the economic benefits of being part of a huge nation have disappeared, it is now one of the poorest countries in Europe. In Kazakhstan oil and gas is causing the economy to grow enormously and the new capital Astana is rising out of the steppes with affecting new buildings and opportunities for the people. In remote parts of Russia the collapse of the Soviet Union is still causing difficulties. In Soviet Times the stately laid on helicopters and plane services based on need not cost - so many people are now trapped in remote towns and cities with few opportunities for jobs or course of study. Education has suffered somewhat in Russia, the state provided free courses up to PhD level for those with the aptitude to learn, many now have to pay to appear at post-graduate courses.
In many of the former republics (especially the Central Asian ones) corruption and electoral swindling have become the norm - again depriving people of opportunities - Turkmenistan was so corrupt the despotic former leader, Saparmurat Niyazov, named months after himself and his baby and ruled like a medieval tyrant. Uzbekistan suffers from similar problems. Radical Islam has reared its unpleasant head in the Northern Caucasian republics of Russia - remember Beslan, and also to some degree in Central Asia.
The go to the wall of the Soviet Union cannot be seen simply as a case of good or ill - it has produced a complicated patchwork of areas that have benefited and areas that have not done all but so well. It has also seen economic sectors that have done well and others that have fallen behind - notably in Russia many state employees, mostly those in Siberia or the far North, being paid sporadically and paid very insignificant. The free health care, free education, free heating and hot water, very cheap accommodation and unwavering prices that were the good things about the USSR have all but disappeared leaving many in poverty and many, notably the elderly, concerned about their following.
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