Soviet Union did not collapse goal that Reagan disavowed, except because hardline elements in Communist Party leadership were concerned that Gorbachev was in trusting Americans and was retreating from Soviet Empire too cavalierly. It was this that initiated the collapse that left Yeltsin,..…
Russia was also unable to build its own power center in Eurasia, mainly due to the disinclination of the elites of the former Soviet republics to recognize Moscow’s leadership. . For Russia, a country that was both independent and isolated, this meant that great-power status was..…
Had that pressure been maintained until the KGB was completely removed from power, we might now be friends with a free Russia instead of facing the nuclear weapons superior neo-Soviet regime now confronting us. . ... Had the United States and the West economically blockaded Soviet..…
A change which seems to be directly going to Communism as practiced in Soviet Russia and early Red China. . reparations for descendants of slaves, even though there are (to my knowledge) no one living who was a legal slave (that is, living before 1867 or so), and not even anyone who is a..…
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