How did the changes encouraged by Mikhail Gorbachev lead to the breakup of the Soviet Union?

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Sim W.
Jul 14, 2017

Popular democracies saw it as an opportunity to free from the yoke of the Soviet Union

Explanation:

After Gorbachev rose to power, he soon informed Popular Democracies that the USSR would no longer meddle with their domestic affairs, they took the opportunity to secede from the Soviet Union.

According to French Philosopher Tocqueville, a tyrannical power only weakens and collapses when it becomes less repressive not the reverse, the Soviet Union and its end was the precise illustration of that statement.

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