The Gestapo (Secret State Police) is the symbol and main instrument of terror in the Third Reich. The Gestapo with particular cruelty persecuted and destroyed all those whom the Nazis considered their opponents: communists and social democrats, Jews and homosexuals, people who dared to doubt the invincibility of German weapons, those who listened to “enemy radio stations” and told political jokes.
Along with the fact that the Jews were classified by the Nazis as a priority “enemy,” the Nazi ideological racial concept aimed at the persecution, imprisonment and extermination of other groups of the population, including Roma, people with mental and physical disabilities, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war and Afro-Germans. The Nazis also declared enemies and threats to the security political dissidents, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, and so-called asocial personalities because they deliberately opposed the Nazi regime or because some aspects of their behavior did not fit into the Nazi understanding of social norms. Nazi sought to eliminate the dissenters in their own country and the so-called racial threats through constant internal cleansing of German society.
The lack of the economic progress damaged the image of Mikhail Gorbachev. The assault in Lithuania also damaged his image and people started looking for a leader in Boris Yeltsin. There was slow pace in the reforms as well as in voting systems.
