The Collapse of Communism

During the cold war the communist and the capitalist clashed. The citizens of communist nations were not happy with the way there economy worked. Also people were tired of thing like the Berlin Wall and they made the communist countries look cruel. The Berlin Wall was a border separating East and West Germany. When Mikhail Gorbachev took office he opened up the Berlin Wall and tried to reform the Russian economic system. He saw the flaws that communism had and realized that people were not happy with the system. Over time the Russian economy was transitioned to be more capitalistic. Since Russia was no longer communist there was no reason for the cold war to exist anymore.