Quote Originally Posted by DuncanONeil View Post
Sorry but the proximate cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union was their inability to maintain a parity with the defense programs of the west, driven by the research of this country. Said research was driven by the administration to President Regan!

The Cold War is not much unless it was part of your life. And it is merely one issue.
I would really be interested in where your information comes from. The cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union had little or no relationship with the defense programs of the West or any research we were doing.

Internal forces brought about the fall of the Soviet Union and Gorbachev had more a hand in it than anything that was done in the West.