In the 1970s and 1980s, the Soviet Union seemed to be one of the most stable political units in the world. In international politics, the Union was very strong and seemed only to be getting stronger. A poster child of Marxist-Leninist socialist ideals and the communist economy that shaped a large part of the 20th century, The USSR rivaled the United States in political, military, and economic strength. While the central command economy of the Union was directly opposed to the free market liberalism of Western nations, the rapid economic development that the Soviets posted in the middle decades of the century made their system appear to be a viable economic alternative. But, we all know how the ended. The thing that not everyone knows is what exactly tore the nation apart, from the inside. Today, we take a dig at those very factors, at least the economic ones, and understand what exactly went wrong for the perfect little Communist Utopia on this football of a planet.

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