Mikhail Gorbachev and the collapse of communism

What he did was, that he made the former soviet union a better place by improving what the people like about it. An example of this was, how they sold goods. Factory owners made a certain amount of goods, after that, they would stop making until they had to make more. So he urged factory owners to make more, so that the citizens could buy more of those goods. He tried to improve economic restructuring. This was called Perestroika and he had another word which was called Glasnost which means openness. He let the people complain and let them choose what they wanted to complain about, and the government would fix it. He even said to old communist rulers that they wouldn't support them if a battle happened, because they were starting to turn into a democratic society, where they could vote for the people rather then have to just agree with whatever they elected people decide. This trend, however it did not start in the former Soviet Union, it started in Poland where they were trying to fight against the government. They started a union called solidarity and they government discussed about letting them have their way, and then they banned it. The thing that happened next was the fact that people stopped making a lot of goods, people were having shortages of food. They wanted to put military force to make them work, but they knew that it wouldn't help the economy. So they let them have elections, and the people did not want communism, but they were rejected by the Polish people and they choose solidarity members. Hearing of what the Polish had done, the Hungarians decided that they could do it too if they set there minds to it. They opened up a small enterprise so that they could be by their selves. Then they got some radicals into the party and that person made the party collapse, and in this collapse, change was made.