the fall of Gorbachev

The sector of the agriculture could not restore despite its privatization. The crisis in the economy was evident from the fact that all the desirable commodities were disappearing from the state stores" shelves and then were reappearing at inflated prices in the private enterprises that Gorbachev had encouraged.
             He also encouraged the Russian population to express themselves. When he came to power, people had low morale and incentive and were afraid to speak up. Due to the previous experiences they had from the previous governments, people showed different character to the state and different inside their homes. Gorbachev wanted to eliminate these feelings and made actual moves for that such as for example, he allowed to 100 people who were opposed to Gorbachev's policies, to form the "Democratic Club" where people from any city could have an open discussion on political affaires. He supported the individual freedom by giving people the full right to express their religious beliefs with dignity. On 1 December 1989, Gorbachev became the first Soviet leader to set foot in the Vatican. In a historic meeting with Pope John Paul II, Gorbachev promised to open diplomatic relations with the Vatican and pledged that the government soon would pass a law guaranteeing freedom of religion for all believers. In his speech in Rome, he stressed: "We need spiritual values; we need a revolution of the mind. No one should interfere in matters of the individual's conscience. Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, and others live in the Soviet Union; all of them have a right to satisfy their spiritual needs- this is the only way toward a new culture and new politics that can meet the challenge of our time." (Available: http://www.russianet.ru/~oldrn/history/gorbachev.html).
             Again based on his reform policies, Gorbachev at the 1986 Iceland Summit, proposed the reduction of the Soviet ballistic missiles. In December 1987, he signed with Ronald Reagan a treaty at the Washington Summit to eliminate intermediate nuclear missiles.