What were some of the reasons for people's alienation from the Soviet system?

1) Efficient administration and government openness
2) Decentralization of authority and public accountability
3) Slow and stifling administration, corruption, and lack of openness
4) Fair distribution of privileges among citizens

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Answer: Slow and stifling administration, corruption, and lack of openness
The people were alienated by the slow and stifling administration, rampant corruption, and the system's unwillingness to allow more openness in government.

The Soviet Union had become stagnant in an administrative and political sense as well. The Communist Party that had ruled the Soviet Union for over 70 years was not accountable to the people. Ordinary people were alienated by slow and stifling administration, rampant corruption, the inability of the system to correct mistakes it had made, the unwillingness to allow more openness in government, and the centralisation of authority in a vast land. Worse still, the party bureaucrats gained more privileges than ordinary citizens. People did not identify with the system and with the rulers, and the government increasingly lost popular backing.