Collapse of Communism

Communism collapsed in Eastern Europe and the USSR because concern about nuclear annhilation was thought to have not been needed.

The people tore down the Berlin Wall because the oppurtunty to invade the Soviet Union without the military close by had arisen and the diplomats took it. They wanted to profit from the financial situatrions.

Many individual flags were put up to replace the Soviet red hammer-and-sickle flag as the newly formed countries declared sovereignity. Russia itself changed its flag back to the tricolored horizontal stripes. The economic took a direct hit from all of this conflict and chaos. Under the rule of communism, people were provided for as they worked. When capitalism came to Russia, the countries split up. This separation caused people to become more dependent on themselves than others.