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What was Soviet leader Mikhael Gorbachev's policy of "perestroika?" We can break it down into "pere," which means "father," and "stroika," which means "bad jokes."
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- 00:03
And here's your Shmoop du jour brought to you by the Soviet Union
- 00:07
they're much quieter than the plumbers Union. Alright well take a look at this image [Plumbers with Mario and Luigi shouting]
- 00:12
Right there perestroika well the image references the Soviet leader Mikhail
- 00:17
Gorbachev's policy of perestroika which was a political movement too (what) that's Russian [Picture of russian stamp]
- 00:25
for what and here are your potential answers (quickly reads throughs answers)
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- 00:29
All right well we love America land of the free great country amazing
- 00:33
people Happy Meals all that good stuff but even we have to admit that our stamp [Man sat with the US at a table with a happy meal]
- 00:38
game was no match for the Soviet Union Come on that things pretty hardcore anyway
- 00:44
perestroika what was it you know besides something that we all struggle to
- 00:48
pronounce (laughs) yeah was it (A) a political movement to modify central planning
- 00:53
we don't think so Gorbachev initially discussed the idea as a means of reform [Gorbachev pointing at a whiteboard that says reform]
- 00:57
but then dropped it in terms of something even better was that even
- 01:02
better something the termination of private ownership nope under Gorbachev
- 01:08
private ownership of production was actually permitted which when you think [Kid holding a minion toy]
- 01:11
about it kind of goes against the whole spirit of communism thing well you could [Kid takes another minion toy from the other child]
- 01:15
even say that it led to the downfall of the Communist Party but seeing as
- 01:19
Gorbachev was the General Secretary of the Communist Party removing communism
- 01:24
was not exactly on his to-do list so we can eliminate C and D in fact [Gorbachev crossing out remove communism from his to-do list]
- 01:29
perestroika was a reform movement within the Communist Party during the later
- 01:34
years of the Cold War that aims to restructure the Soviet economic and
- 01:38
political systems, sound good? Well maybe but seeing as it's often
- 01:42
considered to be the cause of the actual dissolution of the Soviet Union from [Crack appears in the USSR]
- 01:46
Gorbachev's perspective at least it probably wasn't a resounding success so
- 01:51
B is the correct answer all right now say perestroika 5 times fast, 5 times slow [Answer B is circled]
- 01:57
say it once while drinking milk how about that we hope you got the last one
- 02:01
on video good coming out your nose... [Man has milk coming out his nose onto his shirt]
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