During the Cold War Soviet and USA had fought a war in which no battles took place. It was a Cold War, meaning that the two countries prepared for the breakout of a new war by aggressively building up their military equipment and armies. People feared that a nuclear war would happen, seeing both countries had developed nuclear weapons. Both USA and Soviet spent all their money on military expenses. Famine spread and in Soviet, people needed coupons to buy everything, even socks! Luckily, the Cold war ended when the Berlin wall fell between communist East Germany and democratic West Germany in 1990. We say that the Iron Curtain lifted. The countries that had been under the rule of Stalin and his communist USSR gradually became independent. Among these countries were Afghanistan, Moldova, Gerogia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Armenia and the Baltic States Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. By this time, Mikail Gorbachev was the leader of the communist party. He was known to be a milder leader than Stalin was and it was due to him that Soviet’s republics could gain independence. He opened up for more liberal ways of politics, as well as introducing new economic reforms; glasnost and perestroika.
Nice blog entry about the ending of the cold war and the fall of the Berlin wall. Interesting events in our history.
SvarSlettGood summary of the Cold War, however it's a too large theme for a post this size. I believe it would be strongly preferable if you could focus on a smaller theme and dig a bit deeper into it.
SvarSlettYou also seem to have mixed things up a bit... Gorbatchev's reforms were probably a part of the reason for the uprisings allover Soviet, rather than the other way around. There's a parallel to the uprisings during previous reform attempts - Khrushchev, I think. Uprisings forced them to cancel the reforms (Czech Republic 1968, Poland 1981).
There are several other perspectives, worth looking into. Personally, I believe the war in Afghanistan was a larger factor than it's typically considered.