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Mikhail Gorbachev has died

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970 points homarp | 1 comments | 30 Aug 22 20:37 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bediger4000 ◴[30 Aug 22 20:56 UTC] 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 ◴[30 Aug 22 21:00 UTC] 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 ◴[30 Aug 22 21:18 UTC] 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. flavius29663 ◴[30 Aug 22 22:52 UTC] No.32656191{3}[source]▶
Maybe you're not aware how much the USSR was spending on defense, espionage, space programs...By the end of the decade they ended up spending 14% of the GDP on military, trying to keep up with the US