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.
On the contrary, the West cannot manage Soviet reforms any more than it can ''save'' Mr. Gorbachev. It can reinforce and encourage reforms when Western interests are also at stake-by providing credits and technology on a modest and safe scale and by easing restrictions on trade.