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Originally Posted by White Doors
Isn't Reagan considered one of the best American Presidents of all time now? I know he was villified at the time - but he did play quite a role in the collapse of the SU.
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Only by neo-cons. To them, Ronald Reagan is a saint and a superman. Too bad superman was dealing with half a deck when he was in office during his second term. Hard to be great when you're barely cogniciant of what is going on around you.
There were many factors that lead to the down fall of the Soviet Union. Several harsh winters lead to the country not being able to feed itself. The arms race with the west started to bleed the country dry. Afghanistan was the final nail in the military coffin. The pull of the west was getting to be too great as the the Soviet Block states started to crumble to the pressures of the people. The way the Soviets used communist doctrine to develop an oppressive state was their undoing, NOT Ronald Reagan.