adhoff
contestada

Select the correct answer.
Why did hardline communist leaders resent Mikhail Gorbachev?
A.
He had been inefficient from the day he took office.
B.
He was acting as a spy on behalf of the United States.
C.
His reforms were empowering people to rise up against the Soviet government.
D.
He was planning to assume dictatorship over the Soviet Union.
E.
He had abandoned communism and embraced democracy for good.

Respuesta :

His reforms were empowering people to rise up against the Soviet Union

The correct answer is option D. He was planning to assume dictatorship over the Soviet Union.

What happened in 1991 to the Soviet Union?

On December 25, 1991, the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolour. Earlier in the day, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state.

Why did Mikhail Gorbachev resign?

Internally, growing nationalist sentiment threatened to break up the Soviet Union, leading Marxist–Leninist hardliners to launch the unsuccessful August Coup against Gorbachev in 1991. In the wake of this, the Soviet Union dissolved against Gorbachev's wishes and he resigned.

Learn more about What happened in 1991 to the Soviet Union? here:  https://brainly.com/question/1310325

#SPJ2