The Soviet Union

 Thirty-two years ago, on days like these, the Soviet Union officially announced its collapse. The result of this collapse was the creation of fifteen independent countries. Political systems collapse in various ways. The way the Soviet Union collapsed was from within, although external factors had an indirect effect. I can list the reasons for the collapse:

1: Directing most of the country's budget and resources towards military productions and space programs and neglecting to provide the essential needs of the people such as food, housing, etc.

2: Spending huge budgets to continue the war in Afghanistan and maintaining military bases in satellite countries and economic grants to communist countries in Europe and other parts of the world, which in total led to severe economic weakness of the country and the growth of dissatisfaction among the people.

3: The overthrow of a corrupt class of politicians who did not think about anything else except maintaining their positions and exclusive material privileges. 

  4: The exhaustion of government ideology and the ineffectiveness of the propaganda machine.

5: Negation of reform measures by the military and the hard core of power. Gorbachev and his reformist allies tried hard to save the system from collapse by carrying out political and economic reforms, but the army chiefs and members of the old guard refused to accept these reforms and insisted on the same previous repressive methods.

6: The gap between the government and the people became so deep that the mutual trust between the people and the government was completely lost. This situation led to a revolutionary situation so that neither the rulers could rule as before, nor did the people want to be commanded by the government as before.

  7: The ineffectiveness of the repression machine was in such a way that the cost of repression for the government was much higher than the cost of enduring public protests.

I cannot but express my joy at the collapse of international communism thirty-two years ago. As time passes, I am more and more convinced that communism was and is nothing but absolute evil. The communists caused at least one hundred million deaths in the 20th century. The danger of communism remains, of course. Today, communists call themselves socialist or progressive or even liberal.

These neo-communists may condemn the crimes of Stalin and Pol Pot, but you should not be deceived. Today, the communists are active in new battlefields and have become supporters of the rights of sexual, ethnic, and racial minorities, etc. So we must be aware that we do not fall into their trap!