Why did Soviet Union break up? What exactly went wrong?
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ELI5. The Soviet Union as a union of nations was held together by the military and economic power of the central state (mostly Russia). Military power is also tied to economic power. At the end of the 1980’s, Russia no longer had the “money” to keep the separate nations together – so they declared independence from the USSR. These nations believed that tying themselves closer to the wealthier Western European economies was a better bet.
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