The thickness of your blood depends on specialized blood cells, called platelets. After tissue damage, your platelets activate, clump together and begin to synthesize protein fibers that hold the cells together in a blood clot to prevents bleeding from the injury site.
Gorbachev implemented Glasnost to make the Soviet Union more free and more in line with other modern industrialized countries. Glasnost was a set of policies created in the late 1980s to: 1  Make the government of the USSR more transparent. 2  Increase accessibility to the affairs of the government.
Glasnost and perestroika were two of the reforms most associated with Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union. While they were great democratic reforms, they also had the unintended effect of bringing down the USSR in the long run which wasn't Gorbachev's intention.