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Unintended consequences Gorbachev's efforts to reinvigorate the Communist system, although promising, eventually proving to beuncontrollable and caused a cascade of events that ultimately end with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Initially sought as a means to sustain the Soviet economy, the policies of perestroika and glasnost soon led to unintended consequences. The relaxation brought glasnost led to the Communist Party lost its dominance over the media. In a short time, and to cock Enza of the authorities, the media began to expose severe social and economic problems that the Soviet government had long denied, and even actively concealed. Among those who raised the most attention included poor housing, alcoholism, drug abuse, pollution, outdated factories of the era of Stalin and the corruption of small to large scale. All these problems University of Southern California had not been in the discourse of the official media for decades. The media reports also exposed crimes committed by the Stalin and the Soviet regime, the gulags, the treaty with Adolf Hitler and the Great Purge. Furthermore, the ongoing war in Afghanistan, and the mishandling of the disaster at Chernobyl in 1986 damaged the credibility of the government. Overall, the positive view of Soviet life which had been presented to the public for decades during the official media was being rapidly dismantled, and the negative aspects of life in the Soviet Union appeared in public discourse. This term the public's faith in the Soviet system and eroded the social base of the Communist Children's Hospital Party, threatening the identity and integrity of the Union. Fray among the members of the Warsaw Pact nations and instability of its western allies, first indicated by the rise of Lech Wa''sa in 1980 under the command of the union Solidarity, accelerated, leaving the Soviet Union unable to rely on their...