Moreover, the reform encouraged private businesses and cooperatives- individuals could now own small businesses and hire workers. ... With the fostering of private businesses, 5 million people were employed. ... Due to the previous experiences they had from the previous governments, people showed different character to the state and different inside their homes. ... In 1991, as the Soviet economy deteriorated, Gorbachev faced competing pressures from hard-line Communists, from free-market reformers, and from nationalists and secessionists seeking independence for their republics. ... The U.S. ...

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Communism is not a political ideal that one should hold due to the fact that, I am a capitalist which means that I believe in business prospering and making money, even if it meant squashing a few of my competitors. ... Us as free people should not have every aspect of our lives dictated for us. ... People are free to purchase and own their own homes, cars, furniture, and other things like TV, video games, computers, or anything else you might desire. ...

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Unlike the western democratic nations with free markets, the Soviet Union operated an economy that was completely centralized. ... The system was inefficient because without private ownership there were no profits to encourage business to work better or faster. Workers would go home to houses in which approximately 25 percent were without hot water and about 15 percent were without baths. ... Gorbachev tried to introduce gradual reform away from the old central planning and towards the free market, as demanded by soviet reformers and western leaders. ...

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"You have just won an appointment to the United States Military Academy," he said to me, "the folks back home will think that's a better prize than any prize at the Science Fair" (44). ... "I was in the show business, trying to get a big audience for the Government on TV by killing real people with live ammunition, something the other advertisers were not free to do" (57). ... When the philosopher was freed he came to the understanding that the shadows the prisoners saw on the wall were not anything like reality. ...

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If one were to discuss life after the Second World War, if they were not a historian would perhaps not talk much about Harry S. Truman as a major factor. Truman is ranked seventh among forty one presidents ranging from Washington to Clinton . Truman succeeded Roosevelt, after his death, and the da...

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