The Soviet union and its leadership is now weakening and the people are unsatisfied with the instability of what looked like a perfect government in communism. Communism started to fail due to lack of unity among the other communist/socialist countries such as Russia and China. The system was also very poor economically because it allowed limited growth and development. In addition, many other nations thought that the communist countries were dictatorial and decided to have bad diplomatic relationships with communist countries leading to their failure. It had now become evident to the people of the USSR that communism looked and seemed a lot better on paper than in real life.