How did the Soviet Union fall?

by Cannotholdme

I just don't understand how a structured society of 150 million people can just collapse.

I always hear stories about people waking up one day to the news that the Soviet Union had collapsed. What exactly is the process of it collapsing?

I think about the USA and wonder, how would it collapse? It wouldn't be overnight..

Searocksandtrees

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