History 1401E Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Mikhail Gorbachev, Kosovo Liberation Army, Alexander Litvinenko
19 Aug 2016
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As set prices were no longer in effect, the price of most things doubled. People had to sell their things for food. Corruption had always been bad but now people could take over organizations without government interference. People who had previously had high hopes for a capitalist democracy did not know what to think. They looked to the west and saw prosperity but by the time they tried the country was in turmoil. The flight of ethnic russians from ussr regions in. While they had always been the minority, they had always been protected by the state. Chechnya as this region always considered itself to be independent. Germany started to work on revitalizing the nation. Conflicts between the former east and west germans as the west would look down on the east. The west did not believe the east to be as qualified so people with positions began to be replaced.
