ELI5- How did the Soviet Union collapse?

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ELI5- How did the Soviet Union collapse?

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Imagine a giant corporation with layers upon layers upon layers of middle management and constant ass licking and top-down budget allocations and micromanaging over few layers of management.

Now multiply it by 1000.

That’s USSR economy.

Overall it did too much useless shit, not enough shit that people actually needed.

And top-down structure was extremely inflexible and not agile enough, so it failed even at basic stuff like stocking shelves in the stores.

So after huge recession leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus decided to remove the president of the USSR and reform USSR into a loosely-coupled economic alliance (CIS) with more decentralization, actual democracy and market economy.