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News Capsule For The Month of August 2025

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Following are the top news for the month.   If you wish to follow and get notifications of future articles, you can sign up using the email on the left sidebar.  Article of the month Kerala  Renowned Malayalam writer and scholar MK Sanoo passes away.  Actor and artist Kalabhavan Navas passed away. Kerala's '2-Rupee Doctor' AK Rairu Gopal Dies At 80. Swiggy delivery agent killed as speeding private bus hits bike near Kochi. R I Praveen, a resident of Deepa Cottage, Mariapuram, Thiruvananthapuram, has enrolled in the prestigious institution, breaking a long-standing gender norm in this classical dance form tradition.  'Gandhi is my hero': Kenyan Govt official Ali Hare Ruwa conducts research on Gandhian philosophy in Kerala.  NRI booked for wife's suicide in Sharjah detained at the airport. Kerala CM calls for a report on school and hospital buildings needing repair or demolition. 30 bottles of coconut oil were stolen from the Kochi store; cash, othe...
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Why did USSR collapse? How did the policies of the time contribute to its fall?

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The Cold War was seen as one of the most interesting and that is why Historians always keep talking about it as it formed the base for politics today. This short article will take you back forty years to examine the reasons for the fall of the USSR.  Wiki USSR was at its peak of power at the same time there was relative calm in the Cold War under the Carter Presidency. However, the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan was a big failure which militarily and economically weakened the Soviet Union. With the death of Brezhnev in 1982 , the crisis in the USSR grew both economically and politically . The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party couldn’t no longer exert power and control in the country. Laws during that period couldn’t bring the required reforms that could bring the country back alive. Mikhail Gorbachev took control of the Communist Party in 1985. He decided to restructure the Soviet’s economic and political policy through a policy decision called  Perestroika which means re...
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