Soviet Union Red Empire Project

Ben Howson, Savannah Franklund, Yale Kim

Strikes and Shootings:

June of 1962 prices in food rose over night   

Two workers began to protest in the square by writing the sign "More meat, More butter, More housing."

Thousands of demonstrators march to the office building and began to fire warning shots, but the shots aimed toward the trees where children were trying to observe. 

The simple protest broke out to a shooting match with to many deaths to count

Failure of Increased Food a Production:

Due to Khrushchev's failed attempt at increasing food production, many important life factors were cut

Spending money for the military was drastically cut, causing essential needs to be compromised

Change in Leadership:

In 1965 after Khrushchev's death, the USSR began to take over

After the change in leadership, the leaders began to enforce the observance of the Soviet Conservation 

Anti-Soviet propaganda began to result in arrest and jail time

Finding Problems and Results:

In 1968 they sat down and talked about Western capitalism destroying socialism

They needed to solve freedom and in the interview said, "For our freedom and yours, long live the independence of Czechoslovakia"      

The KGB:

The enemies of the citizens were the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, their job was to spy on the citizens, and allow all rights to be dismissed. 

The KGB was based on ideology 

Meaning they were visionary theorizing, they were a group of manner and content thinking

"You pay them, They work hard":

In April 1974, 600 people volunteered and began working on the Track Route from North to Pacific

Volunteer work is done for no pay, meaning the work is often not taken very seriously, and these volunteers were lacking motivation

Shortly into the project the commanders of the route agreed they should have added pay to make the motivation more clear 

Cotton Means Money:

Cotton became increasingly more demanding in the production and in labor 

Cotton began to be a hit, even entering its way into illegal trade

Honesty Put to the Test:

One farm manager began to sign documents stating there was fair trade occurring at their farm, but this was a lie 

This man was receiving free cotton and resulted in stealing $1,420,331 and concluded with both parties in court.  

The Crackdown:

The economy needed help, and fast. People started to adjust the pricing of the most popular agricultural product, cotton

If the cotton was reserved at 40-50, the sell it at 35-40, they simply needed more sales

If there was an idea to improve the economy, they took action. 

No Hope:

In 1982. The leader Breshnif had died and once again leadership roles had changed 

In no way was the economy helping these drastic changes and other major problems. 

Hope dwindled every day

The New Hero:

After the GreAt State Funeral in 1984, there was a small change in hope 

"Achieve a breakthrough, there is no alternative" the new leader said, and began to do so

Then the world began to change, unexpectedly:

Country by country the revolutions began and no one expected what happened next, but communism began to dissolve. 

In 1992 one country became 17 countries and economy was changing drastically 

Last Slide ( I can't remember what we titled this last slide):

The First policy is openness meaning no oppression in government, and all was to be fair

Lastly, communism was reforming and began to dissolve before anyone expected.