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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
No, three consecutive failed wheat crops is what did the Soviets in. The spending in Afghanistan coupled with no wheat exports pretty much crippled the USSR and brought about the failure of the empire.
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I dont think you're giving Chernobyl enough credit.
I'm not saying you're wrong here, because you're not, but the disaster at Chernobyl and the subsequent cost in cleanup was not insignificant. If anything it was the first domino to fall before the wheat crops and then Afghanistan.
Death by a thousand cuts.