How did the inherent problems of the Soviet system impact its people?
a. There was no freedom of speech.
b. People could no longer identify with the rulers and the government.
c. They were able to amass wealth due to Soviet trade relations
d. Corruption and maladministration alienated the ordinary people.

a, b and d

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 centralization of authority in a vast land. Worse still, the party bureaucrats gained more privileges than ordinary citizens.