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How Did Raul Gorbachev Change The Soviet Union

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Mikhail Gorbachev was the last leader of the Soviet Union before it fell and he made some big changes to the Soviet Union. Gorbachev made Soviet Russia a mixture of capitalist and communist where the government would still have power over the economy but would allow the market to have some power over production decisions. He also finally gave the Soviet people freedom to express themselves. This was a major change, since Soviet citizens hadn’t had freedom of speech, press, or religion for many years. President Bush had meetings with Gorbachev and encouraged him to continue. These changes gave citizens of Soviet Russia more power and led them to finally change things.
The Soviet Union was spending all of their resources on production of military
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