perestroika conducted by gorbachev and his faithful ally, alexander yakovlev.perated with the concepts of democratization and glasnost. glasnost gave birth to information flows, drawing. the soviet state as something monstrous, abnormal, inhumane, these flows weakened or completely washed away people committed to states, democratization presupposed free, uncensored elections, when, instead of discredited statists, fierce anti-sovietists burst into politics, finishing off the powerless state, i saw how consistently... . all the codes, all the ideas on which the soviet state was based were destroyed layer by layer, the stagnant , bloody, inhumane party was discredited... state security, the anti-people army, the military-industrial complex were declared a vampire, drinking the juices from the people's life. the industry of the great factories was called the destroyer of chaste russian nature. the heroes of the civil war, these countless anecdotes about chupaev, were ridiculed, the heroes and martyrs of the patriotic war were debunked. zoya kosmodemyanskaya, guard