re: #3 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

It was Reagan.

It was Thatcher.

It was the Pope.

It was Solidarity.

It was Glasnost.

It was Gorby.

It was being out arms-raced.

It was implosion.

It was a lot of things.

It was not Sputnik.

Yes—many things set them up. I’ve always thought that it was some idiot engineer at Chernobyl that started the avalanche.