Re: DId Reagan REALLY have that much to do with the fall of the USSR?
When I was a kid, the conservative Republicans, Reagan among them, complained that the Russians were outspending us on defense, that we needed to up our defense spending to keep up. In fact, they were spending so much because they were so inefficient.
Managing a gigantic geographic entity like the U.S.S.R. would have been a daunting task for any government. An inefficient criminal conspiracy like the Soviet Communist government was destined, as Reagan said, for the ash heap of history.
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