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Mikhail Gorbachev has died

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bediger4000 ◴[] No.32654941[source]
I was taught that Ronald Reagan ended the cold war and gave us the longest lasting economic boom.
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flavius29663 ◴[] No.32654999[source]
He did. It's just that leftists in the US won't accept that and pretend that the Cold War just "ended" one day, because of the goodwill of the Russians, not because the US policy forced them into bankruptcy.
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ajsnigrutin ◴[] No.32655217[source]
> not because the US policy forced them into bankruptcy

what?!

It was pretty much the USSR policies that forced them into bankrupcy.... as it did in every other socialist state.

source: am from another former socialist country, that also doesn't exist anymore.

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1. avmich ◴[] No.32655530{3}[source]
US definitely were helping to bankrupt... but then just before the putsch in August 1991 USA got really worried that USSR will split in parts, and the nightmare of managing relations with multiple nuclear states led them to support Gorbachev and USSR, until it actually broke. Then the work of gathering all nuclear armaments into one state - Russia - was going on, along with support of Russian scientists (lest them go to places like Iran and help them with their projects). That's one of the big reasons we have ISS now...