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To: gogeo

Blue jeans and Coke brought down the Soviet Union.


18 posted on 12/18/2014 6:33:13 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: MrB
Well, no.

The USSR wasn't overthrown, it collapsed.

This due to RR's policy, "We win. They lose."

The USSR was effectively bankrupt when RR walked away from disarmament talks in Reykjavik. Gorbachev recognized he didn't have the $$$ to engage in a new arms race.

Russians were passive observers.

29 posted on 12/18/2014 7:55:21 AM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the Republican Party does not want you.)
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