THE COLD WAR

How the Cold War ended

How the Cold War ended

Introduction

In order to understand the vulnerability of a particular country's political portfolio, crises are one key factor that is being analyzed. Once a crisis develops, the government's job is to contain and resolve it. For successful resolution of a crisis, it is important for the government to understand the nature of the crisis and to have a clear vision about the new system it wishes to build from the collapsed system.

Policy of Containment

The policy of containment has suffered a complete defeat. Pretentious title of the policy was meant for something to distract the attention of world public opinion from the real objectives of U.S. ruling circles. This technique is not new. In 1914, Lenin, denouncing the imperialist desire to cover up the euphonious phrase aggressive creature of its policy, wrote that the way the bourgeoisie is trying to assure that it tends to defeat the enemy, not for plunder and land-grabbing, but for the freedom of all other peoples, but their own.

Gorbachev, however, refused to act.Like dominoes, Eastern European communist dictatorships fell one by one. By the fall of 1989, East and West Germans were tearing down the BERLIN WALL with pickaxes. Communist regimes were ousted in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. On Christmas Day, the brutal Romanian dictator NICOLAE CEAUSESCU and his wife were summarily executed on live television. Yugoslavia threw off the yoke of communism only to dissolve quickly into a violent civil war. Demands for freedom soon spread to the Soviet Union. The BALTIC STATES of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania declared independence. Talks of similar sentiments were heard in UKRAINE, the CAUCASUS, and the CENTRAL ASIAN states. Here Gorbachev wished to draw the line. Self-determination for Eastern Europe was one thing, but he intended to maintain the territorial integrity of the Soviet Union. In 1991, he proposed a Union Treaty, giving greater autonomy to the Soviet republics, while keeping them under central control.

More dynamic U.S. policy was the so-called policy of freedom. (Acheson, 1969, 67) in this regard, said: There is a difference of opinion as to whether, on what we need to focus their hopes for a significant decrease in the power of the Soviets and their effects: the action is internal forces in the Soviet Union, or by applying external pressure. This is - the question of freedom. Secondly, the question arises of how to stop the further spread of Soviet expansion. This is - the question of containment. Further, Kennan stressed that these concepts are not an alternative. I do not know who of us would not want to reduce the area of Soviet power and Soviet influence - Kennan wrote. - So we're all for the freedom. I do not know as a person who would consider it desirable to further the spread of Soviet expansion. Therefore, we are for deterrence. Our differences are only a means to achieve each of these goals.

Year by year, socialism was gaining ...