why did communism collapse in eastern europe?

Answer 1

Maintaining those satillite states was a drain on the Soviet economy, but as long as the leaders of the Soviet Union were people who had experienced the horrors of the German attack in WWII, maintaining those buffer states was worth the cost. Once a new generation of leaders arose that was not preoccupied with what had happened to the Soviet Union from '41-'45, they decided it was no longer worth it to prop up their puppet states.

Answer 2

Communism and the great nation, the USSR, i.e. the Soviet Union collapsed because of the Afghanistan crisis and the former president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev.

1) In the early 1970s and 1980s, the CIA of the USA trained the poor Afghan muslims into terrorists. For you kind information, Osama Bin Laden was trained by the CIA of the USA. When the USSR attacked Afghanistan to take revenge, the USA thought of acting as the hero and intervened into the matter.
The entire world thought that the USSR was evil and the Americans were the good-guys. Thus, the world critised the Soviet Union.

2) In the year 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev became the president of the Soviet Union (the USSR), he introduced many economic policies like PERESTROIKA and GLASTNOST.
These two terms meant Open-ness and Liberialization and Privatization. As soon as these two laws came into action. The small satelite states like East Germany and others, wanted personal freedom too. The Western countries like the USA and the UK also emphasised on religion. Finaly the first and the greatest Communist empire in the world, The USSR (Soviet Union) collapsed in 25th December 1991 A.D.

Answer 3

Central planning could only acheive so much. Communism and socialism work in theory, but when they're managed by a central bureaucratic authority, the economic structure becomes costly, ineffecient and becomes stagnant. Then, the system became too much of a burden on the state and people reacted against the conditions created by the situation.

When the people reacted, the Soviets (under Gorbachev) didn't send troops into their satellite states in Eastern Europe. As such, the populace within each nation managed to overthrow the much-hated communist regimes.

Answer 4

Communism believes that everyone will behave altruistically and give up that extra car so that their neighbours children can have bread. Human nature met communism and it lost.

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Answer 6

they spent all their money fighting the cold war and then finished off shoveling the last of their resources into afghanistan.

soviet union just went too far too fast. most people forget that the russians were hungry unpaid serfs and slaves before the revolution.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Because it doesn't work.