Soviet Union · Full chronicle and history

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the program said that nearly 20 million members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union did not organize to take to the streets to defend the Soviet Communist regime.

Yeltsin took control of Russia to halt tax remittances to the center and seized central financial institutions, causing the Soviet central fiscal deficit to skyrocket. On December 25, Gorbachev handed over the nuclear briefcase, and the Soviet Union officially dissolved.

The once arrogant Soviet Union declared its dissolution two years after the upheavals in Eastern Europe. In the course of its transition, the lack of mature institutions allowed state-owned wealth to fall into the hands of a few oligarchs.

Hardliners in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union formed a State Emergency Committee to launch a coup; the KGB's elite Alpha Group refused orders to remove Yeltsin, and the coup collapsed within 3 days.

The Ministry of Gas Industry of the Soviet Union was reorganized as a whole into a corporate group. Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin made a glamorous transformation into a boss, and the ministry turned both its personnel and assets entirely into a company.

The Soviet Union passed the Law on Cooperatives, allowing private cooperatives to operate under the umbrella of state-owned enterprises. This turned the floodgates for converting accounting currency into cash from the Communist Youth League to every factory director across the country.

The Soviet Union passed the State Enterprise Law, delegating financial and production autonomy to factories. Factory directors were allowed to retain profits and determine production, but the lack of clear property rights opened a loophole for subsequent asset siphoning.

On November 23, 1972, the Soviet Union's giant N1 rocket made its fourth launch and failed, exploding about 107 seconds after liftoff; all four launches ended in failure, and the Soviet lunar program came to an end as a result.

To avoid accountability for failed technological exploration and to meet its KPIs, the Soviet Ministry of Radio Engineering, which controlled resource allocation, suppressed the scientific community and chose to copy the American IBM 360 through reverse engineering, leaving domestic hardware development in permanent stagnation.

After Khrushchev was overthrown in 1964, Zhou Enlai and He Long went to Moscow to explore reconciliation. Soviet Defense Minister Malinovsky told He Long that the Soviets had gotten rid of Khrushchev, and the Chinese should also get rid of Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong was deeply shocked upon hearing this, and this incident had a profound impact on the history of the Chinese Communist Party.

In 1960, a US U-2 reconnaissance plane was shot down while carrying out a reconnaissance mission over Soviet airspace, and pilot Francis Gary Powers was captured.

113 days after Stalin's death, Marshal Zhukov led officers into the meeting venue and arrested Beria on the spot; he was executed later that December.

On the day Stalin died, spy chief Beria began a power grab, bringing the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Defense under his own control, and then pushed for a mass release of prisoners.

After Stalin's death, Mao Zedong felt the restraints on him loosen, began to develop an illusion of self-reliance, and looked down on Khrushchev.

Stalin sent two urgent telegrams, warning that the CCP starting a civil war immediately after the end of the Anti-Japanese War would be national self-destruction.

The period from 1945 to 1991 was the Cold War, an era of confrontation between communism and capitalism, and between one-party dictatorship and pluralist political ideologies, occurring mainly between the Soviet Union and the United States.

In 1937, the distinguished Soviet Red Army Marshal Tukhachevsky was accused of colluding with Nazi Germany to overthrow Stalin and was executed, becoming a classic historical event of Stalin using charges of treason to purge prestigious generals.

The Soviet Union specifically published a Russian-language collection of Mao Zedong’s works and wrote a short biography for him, showing that he was under special protection and political packaging by Stalin.

The Soviet Union, through multi-channel and large-scale financial transfusions, supported the CCP in maintaining its military and political machinery when it was being encircled and suppressed by the Kuomintang.

Film teacher Kuleshov juxtaposed the same close-up of an expressionless male actor after shots of soup, a coffin, and a woman, leading the audience to interpret them as hunger, sadness, and desire, respectively.

To evade pursuit by French police, Deng Xiaoping made his way to Moscow, where he enrolled in Sun Yat-sen University to receive Soviet red ideology education.

After being filtered by communism, Liu Shaoqi was selected and recommended to Moscow in 1921 for advanced studies, systematically learning Marxism-Leninism.