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.
It pointed the way for Mikhail S. Gorbachev's reform program twenty years later. We will look first at key developments in Eastern European states, then Khrushchev's USSR and the early years of Brezhnev, followed by the Prague Spring of 1968 in Czechoslovakia and dissent in the Soviet Union.espite the Khrushchev thaw in the Soviet Union, the revolution in Hungary and the liberalization in Poland, Czechoslovakia remained an orthodox Stalinist state. A new, Stalinist-type constitution was approved in 1960; the school system continued to copy of the Soviet system.