The fall of the Soviet Union started with Mikhail Gorbachev accepting the country to have multi-party system elections. This made it so the Communist government system that the Soviet Union was famous for can start becoming more and more democratic. As the Soviet Union during the Cold War era was an enemy of the United States. The U.S of course being Democratically run. People also started to wake up to the totalitarian acts of the Soviet Union in the revolutions of 1989.