A Letter About the Fall of The Soviet Union

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Dear Comrade

My cherished friend, I regret to inform you that our beloved Soviet society has ceased to exist. Our solid red flag with its magnificent gold emblem of the hammer and sickle flew above the Kremlin for the very last time on Christmas day, 1991. Prior to this gloomy day, eleven of the fifteenth Soviet republics that once made up the strong and prosperous Soviet Union, met in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, to announce that they would no longer partake in the Soviet Union, and had created a Commonwealth of independent states. Our Baltic brothers: Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia were the first to break apart, while Georgia remained as the last republic in the Soviet Union. I have served the Soviet Union as Minister of Foreign Affairs for almost two decades, and for the past few days, I have pondered the past in order to understand why our mighty society has dissolved. I ask myself if it was because of Comrade Mikhail Gorbachev and his new policies, the ethnic divisions of the Soviet Union, or if this communist ideology that we strived to implant in the minds and hearts of our people simply failed to take firm root.

Our beautiful Soviet Society was born in 1917, with the Bolshevik Revolution resulting in the creation of a new government who would focus on Socialism and eventually transform into Communism. The Bolsheviks over threw the Tsarist autocracy succeeding the lands of the Russian Empire, eventually leading to the glorious Union of Soviet Socialist Republics under the control of the Marxist revolutionary, and U.S.S.R’s first leader Vladimir Lenin. For centuries, Tsarist autocracy oppressed its people, despite the Soviet Union’s goal of creating a society of true democracy. The sad truth was that it was as tyrannica...

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... office in on December 25, 1991. To my surprise, this massive military powerhouse that we called the U.S.S.R, which created huge bloodbaths and created a constant sense of fear and terror, had somehow come to a very peaceful end. For what had held so many Republics together, no longer exists, it was the glue that held us in unity to stand as one. Now we remain in 15 republics with the daunting task of establishing economies, social and political organizations to lead us into a democratic future. I feel as my world has been flipped upside down, as I no longer feel supressed or forced to live in fear. I am excited for what the future holds, as I see a new peaceful beginning in a world that has seen so much hate, disarray and has been bathed in blood. Sincerely, Joe Doe

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