re: #493 austin_blue

Ummm…no. The USSR collapsed on its own inefficiencies, which had been building up for decades. The final blow was Afghanistan. It broke them.

It’s all perspective austin_blue, Afghanistan was the “final blow” greatly supported by US support for the jihadis.

The inefficiencies built up for decades but Reagan pushed them over the abyss. His effect is debatable as to the amount but it is not nothing.

“Mr Gorbachev tear down this wall.”

You can’t take those words and his historic role away from him.