What caused the counter-revolutionary wave of 1989?
I know things were really bad in 1989, but what made it so bad that people in so many socialist countries just rose up and overthrew their own governments?
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Where do you get the impression from that the people rose up and overthrew their governments?
Care to elaborate? Honestly curious
Not OP, but the dissolution of the ussr was entirely undemocratic. They also violated the constitution, which did have provisions for leaving, in order to do so.
Some republics did actually leave using the correct procedure. Estonia and Armenia - definitely, Lithuania and Latvia - I think so.
Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia were and are bastions of anti-Soviet expressly Nazi sacks of shit.
Not related to what you said, but I just want to remind people that the Holocaust on the eastern front (from the Nazi position) was perpetrated with gleeful help from collaborators in these nations. Always remember this when you hear immigrants from these nations speak poorly of the Soviet Union. It’s like listening to the grandson of some reactionary Bay of Pigs PoS who was told constant lies about the “evils of communism!” They have incentive to lie and misrepresent constantly.
That'd be understandable, however when such people say "Communists were even worse than Nazis" IRL you should just inform them that there are Jewish people in the room and see that mild irritation on their faces.
Here are some resources on it. In most cases, it was a combination of internal revisionism and Western infiltration:
Hakim’s video on the fall of the USSR: https://youtube.com/watch?v=w72mLI_FaR0&feature=sharec
disillusionment with the government, decades of stagnation and lack of revolutionary spirit
That's a very vague way to say that a planned economy going down with USA doing actual humanitarian flights with actual food doesn't really help people to trust in any system.