How does a government like the Soviet Union just collapse? What does that actually look like?

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I am having a hard time understanding how governments can just “collapse” like the Soviet Union, without any foreign threats. Wouldn’t an incompetent and dysfunctional government just keep up appearances and continue to operate in the background?

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The Soviet Union started to give people more freedoms. As people learn of how much better other countries are doing they want to be more like them. The smaller countries that made up the Soviet Union started to leave it. This lead to a financial failure and eventually a change in government.

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