Your position is lame: The USSR fell with no war.
MY position's lame??!! The USSR fell because Ronald Reagan built up American military strength to the point where the USSR knew it couldn't compete and capitulated. Are you seriosly suggesting that mindless inanities uttered by the Pope had anything whatsover to do with the fall of the USSR?
"Your position is lame: The USSR fell with no war."
If you are looking for direct conflict between the USA & USSR, of course there was none. But this was a broader conflict. One between capitalism and communism. It contained several "hot" wars including Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and numerous other conflicts. The parties involved were not always direct conduits of either cause, but there was no mistake who was backing which side.